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Rock Steady
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The 1970s were a guitar-riffing heyday for Rolling Stone magazine. From the breakup of The Beatles in 1970, to the Billboard domination of rock legends like Led Zeppelin and Aerosmith, there was no shortage of music news during this decade. While the rock... Read more
Hot, Spicy, and Sharp
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Walk into your local Walmart superstore and you might just find a spicy taste of Belize. Marie Sharp’s habanero pepper sauce, named after the company’s founder, has become an irreplaceable staple of Belizean cuisine. Sixty-nine year old Marie... Read more
Paradise?
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I've never been to a Caribbean paradise. The closest I've come is through the stories of cruise shrip journeys that alighted like mystical floating cities from one point to another; now that I'm in Belize and can hear reports of the ships from actual... Read more
Mennonites in Belize 2
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Part 2 For contrast's sake, I was thinking about Mennonites while sitting in the midst of Belize City's most dangerous section, a small area of crumbling shacks forming the ghetto next to the main bus station. I'd been taken there by another American who,... Read more
Mennonites in Belize
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I've become obsessed with Mennonites. Specifically, Mennonites living in tropical jungles. More specifically, Mennonites living in the tropical jungles of Belize. They've been here for fifty years now, refugees of Mexican and Paraguayan and American and... Read more