The Sugar Islands
“Virgin Islands from WHERE THE CLOCKS CHIME TWICE Written in 1950 The car that meets you at St. Thomas airport will have a left-hand drive, but the chauffeur will hug the left side of the road. It is over thirty years since Denmark sold her West Indian islands to the U.S. Government, but the cattle cannot be trained to accept new traffic orders, so the old rule of the road holds good. That is symbolic of these islands—the persistence of old customs under a new régime; a persistence that makes ea...ch of the three islands—St. Thomas, St. Croix, St. John— different from its neighbours.
I can best indicate those differences by describing my first day in each of the three islands. I went to St. Thomas first. Through the windows of the circling aircraft I glimpsed a high green island, the hillside dotted with white bungalows, a land-locked harbour, schooners and yachts and sailing-boats at anchor; a township built over and between three rounded hills, and climbing back into the mountains.MoreLess
I can best indicate those differences by describing my first day in each of the three islands. I went to St. Thomas first. Through the windows of the circling aircraft I glimpsed a high green island, the hillside dotted with white bungalows, a land-locked harbour, schooners and yachts and sailing-boats at anchor; a township built over and between three rounded hills, and climbing back into the mountains.MoreLess
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