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Grenada: Artefact

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008 @ 11:18 UTC

by Janine Mendes-Franco

Countries:: Grenada
Topics:: Environment, History, Human Rights, Indigenous
Languages:: English

“It is not unusual, during the course of a morning, as we weed or mole or fork the land, for us to unearth some pottery shard or rusted garden implement from long ago”: Grenada's Free Spirit finds an unexpected treasure from the 1800s.

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