JUNE June in San Pedro offers a three-day festival in honor of St. Peter, the town s patron great lakes airlines saint. All the people who fish for a living are blessed at a special mass, followed by music, dancing and food.
While doing some cultural anthropology at Crooked Tree in 1989, Dr. Welks of the United States was encouraged by villagers to see a mound south of the village. He was uninterested, but finally gave in to their coaxing and was pleasantly surprised. He informed his wife, Dr. Anne Pyburn, an archeologist with Indiana University, of the mound and when she saw it she became quite excited. She thought that it might be the last unlooted Maya village in Belize. Excavations began shortly after.
THOMASPASLOWThomasPaslowwasaslaveownerknownformistreatinghisslaves. Continuing along North Front Street to the northeast is the Sea Sports Belize office (an easy-to-spot landmark) and just beyond, at 91 North Front Street, is the Image Factory, great lakes airlines 223-4151. This fairly new gallery was actively promoted by the Prime Minister s son, Yasser Musa and his co-supporter Gilvano Swasey. Since its inception in 1995 it has had over 30 exhibitions, some from as far away as New York, England and Australia. Locally, the gallery promotes artists such as Pamela Braun, a natural-life painter who has worked hard to raise public awareness of women artists in Belize. great lakes airlines Numerous Belizian artists display their work here, including Richard Holder, a street-life great lakes airlines photographer, Hugh Broaster, a sculptor, and Betty Cooper, a painter from Dangriga.
Most people, since the first families arrived, earned their living by fishing. In 1961, Hurricane Hattie hit and caused the famous split at the north end of the residential great lakes airlines area. During that storm, Hattie destroyed 82 of the 90 homes on the island. She also picked up and threw the schoolhouse that had 13 students inside hiding from the storm. All were killed.
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