Thanks, Edward. I first stayed on the island in 1971, when I went around
the island with a surveyor who was putting in electrical lines. Before
then, people had relied on generators or gas light at night. I returned in
1974, when one of my friends who had relied on subsistence fishing and
part-time work was earning good pay laying down the runway for the first
airport. In 2013, I met up with old friends who had seen the whole
modernization of the island, which now generates part of its electricity
with a hybrid wind/hydraulic station. The island looks prosperous, though
people do worry that in an economic crisis it is no longer self-sufficient.

-- Paul


On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 1:56 PM, Edward Picot <[email protected]> wrote:

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