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Virgin Islands Bay Rum is the story of the people who created and made Virgin Islands Bay Rum the best and most highly demanded aftershave and multipurpose product around the turn of the century. Then came Prohibition and all the challenges associated with trying to market and sell a product containing alcohol when it was illegal to do so.

Virgin Islands Storytellers is a compilation of almost 100 authors and storytellers along with their backgrounds and the inspiration for their almost 200 books about the Virgin Islands. Some of the storytellers have more than 20 books to their name while others have just one. Some authors stick mainly to historic fact and dates while others freely express themselves in local Virgin Islands dialect and tell their story as if speaking to a frien...

Virgin Islands Storytellers spotlights 100 storytellers, writers and historians and griots from the U.S. Virgin Islands. Storytelling has long been an African tradition and these writers have kept that tradition going in their published works about anything and everything related to the U.S. Virgin Islands and the former Danish West Indies.

The Coal Women of St. Thomas is a detailed account of the men (and women) who worked on the St. Thomas coal wharves between the 1840's and 1940's. More than 200 black and white images, newspaper articles, maps and first hand research help to tell the story of the coal carriers and the coal companies called the St. Thomas Harbor home.

Rescuing Virgins: A Guide to Virgin Islands Sports Collectibles tells the stories of 100 Virgin Islands athletes that have gone on to play professional sports at the highest levels. Sports categories include baseball, basketball, football, boxing, horse racing, volleyball, mixed martial arts, sailing, skiing, motor sports and Olympics.

Runaway Virgins: Danish West Indian Slave Ads 1770-1848 uses more than 250 slavery related newspaper ads to help shine light on what life must have been like for the enslaved people of the U.S. Virgin Islands (former Danish West Indies). More than 300 specific individuals are identified and subjects related to runaway slaves are highlighted (i.e. punishment, laws, free men/women, country of origin, children, pardons, etc.)

The Legend of Cowfoot Woman and The Soldier Crab is a Virgin Islands tale about a little girl who gets lost in the woods and is forced to work for an old witch. The little girl is surprised to meet a friendly soldier crab that can speak and who offers to help her to get home.

500 black and white images that depict the people, places and events that transformed the Danish West Indies into the U.S. Virgin Islands. The United States purchased the islands of the Danish West Indies from Denmark in 1917 and renamed the islands the Virgin Islands of the United States of America. This book uses 500 black and white images to help show what life was like in the islands before and after becoming an American territory.