“Over 20 years ago this house was in danger. A hastily organised group comprising John Newel Lewis, Claude Gilleaume, Megan Brown, Raul Poon Kong, Debra Reynolds and many other architects, artists and concerned Trinis pulled out all the stops and fought to save this house. We picketed successfully for days, specially at rush hour traffic, to save this house from being knocked down. Now that I’m living in Barbados I can’t picket on the streets but I can picket by email and do hope that we can save this house from the fate of so many others. ****, please take some photos of it for me, I’d like to paint it one day!….” [Read original article]
Save Boissiere House
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