One of the interesting things to me has been just the familiarity of it all--Sugar Beach is just a few miles southeast down the coast from us here at ELWA, and there are a couple brief mentions of ELWA in the book. But I wanted to know exactly where it was. There's no exact spot known as "Sugar Beach" now--at least not well known--so after looking for options of places matching the description on Google Earth last night, I took a walk this morning before church to go looking for it, and here it is: The House at Sugar Beach, as it is today--run down, only half of it occupied, a monument to the history of this nation which is told so well in this book. In case you want to see our area... check out Google Earth... the house at sugar beach is at 6 deg 13'41'' N, 10 deg 40'03" W. My walk this morning (one way) was about 2.4 miles of coastline.... see if you can find us at ELWA on Google Earth... we're waving!
The House at Sugar Beach, as it is today (picture taken from the ocean side...I'm standing at the tide line).
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by the way - elwa has just recently been unveiled by google earth. Previously, it had been blurry and extremely bad quality - the only distinguishing feature had been the section coastline that it has, and i am proud to say that that is how i found it. However now, it is in good detail, and the image quality may be sub-par, but i can see our house, and the tree, and the laird's house... so it is good enough - and muuuch better than before.
I've been reading several books recently about the middle east that were set before or during my life there...it is interesting when the books discuss places or people I knew but from a very different perspective--emphasizing things that I was barely aware of, or passing over things that seemed very important to me. It's almost as if everyone sees the world through their own eyes! It was a bit of a threat to my own "narrative" of the middle east, which of course puts people that I knew front and center...
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