“Island Reliquaries: Voices from a Jamaican Past pays homage to Jamaican landscape. It interweaves the author’s poems into vivd portrait gallery of ordinary, yet extraordinary men and women who, by century-long industry and ingenuity, laid the foundations for today highly creative and cosmopolitan culture.”
Old girl and curator of the Emrie James Museum, Margaret Reckord Bernal launched her new book of poetry and photographs celebrating Jamaica’s heritage Island Reliquaries: Voices from a Jamaican Past at the Emrie James Museum on December 3, 2013. It was a fine turnout of old girls, art enthusiasts and friends. Books were on sale from other old girls authors. Dr. Blossom O’Mealy Nelson chaired the function.