Cultural Life of the British Virgin Islands

<body> <p> </p> <p align="center">This web page uses frames, but your browser doesn't support them.</p>  <div align="center"><center> <table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="580"> <tr> <td> <div align="center"><center> <table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="210" bgcolor="#FFFFC6" bordercolor="#D6D6D1" bordercolorlight="#E4E4E0" bordercolordark="#BBBBB3"> <tr> <td align="center" valign="top"><p align="center"><a target="Frame Body" href="Default.html"><strong><font size="2">B-V-I Guide's</font></strong></a><br> <font size="3"><strong><a href="culture/overview.html" name="CULTURAL LIFE IN THE BVI" target="Frame Story">CULTURAL LIFE<br> IN THE BVI</a><br> </strong><small><a href="culture/_private/noframes.html" target="_top">No Frames</a>   <a href="culture/default.html" target="_top">Frames</a></small><br> <small>(click twice to go to bookmark)</small></font></p> <p align="center"><font size="3"><strong><a href="culture/overview.html#Cultural Calendar" target="Frame Story">Cultural Calendar</a><br> </strong>Virgin Gorda Easter Festival<br> BVI Spring Regatta<br> August Festival<br> CYS Boat Show<br> BVI Christmas</font></p> <p align="center"><font size="3"><a href="culture/overview.html#Landmarks and Sights" target="Frame Story"><strong>Landmarks & Sights</strong></a><br> Mt. Healthy Windmill<br> Sage Mountain</font></p> <p align="center"><font size="3"><a href="culture/overview.html#August Festival" target="Frame Story"><strong>August Festival<br> </strong></a>Overview of Events</font></p> <p align="center"><a href="Nightlife/_private/niteTOC.html" name="ENTERTAINMENT" target="_self"><font size="3"><strong>TO NIGHTLIFE</strong></font></a></p> <p align="center"><font size="3"><a href="culture/overview.html#Music" target="Frame Story"><strong>Music</strong></a><br> Quito Rymer<br> Foxy Callwood</font></p> <p align="center"><strong><a href="culture/overview.html#Art" target="Frame Story">Art</a><br> </strong>Galleries<br> <a href="culture/Art/KarlMerklein/default.html" target="Frame Story">Caribbean Paintings by<em><br> </em>Karl Merklein</a><br> Studios</p> <p align="center"><strong><a href="culture/overview.html#Fashion" target="Frame Story">Fashion</a><br> </strong>Foxy's Fashion Shows</p> <p align="center"><a href="culture/overview.html#Photography" target="Frame Story"><strong>Photography</strong></a><br> Screensavers</p> <p align="center"><strong><a href="culture/overview.html#Arawaks" target="Frame Story">Arawaks</a><br> </strong><font size="3"><span class="Article" style="LINE-HEIGHT: 20px">Pre-Columbian Figure<br> Zemis</span></font></p> <p align="center"><strong><font size="3"><a href="culture/overview.html#History" target="Frame Story">History</a><br> </font></strong><em>The Old and the Unexplored: a Fresh Look at BVI History</em></p> <p align="center"><strong><a href="culture/Pirates/pirates.html" target="Frame Story">Pirates & Privateers</a><br> </strong>Sir Francis Drake<br> Black Sam Bellamy</p> <p align="center"><strong><a href="culture/overview.html#Shipwrecks" target="Frame Story">Shipwrecks</a><br> </strong>Wreck of the <em>Rhone</em><br> <em>HMS Astrea</em></p> <p align="center"><font size="3"><strong><a href="culture/tradition.html" target="Frame Story">Traditional Life</a><br> </strong>Callabash<br> Callwood Distillery<br> The Walls on Anegada<br> Virgin Island Folk Museum</font></p> <p align="center"><strong><a href="Tortola/RidgeRoad/ridge.html" target="Frame Story"><font size="3">Life on Ridge Road</font></a><font size="3"><br> </strong>Vertical "Ghuts" & Road Cuts<br> Skyworld</font></p> <p align="center"><strong><a href="culture/Resorts/default.html" target="Frame Story">Resorts</a><br> </strong>Little Dix Bay<br> Bitter End</p> <p align="center"><font size="3"><strong><a href="culture/overview.html#Books" target="Frame Story">Books</a><br> </strong><em>A Treasured Moment in History</em></font></p> <p align="center"><strong><font size="3"><a href="culture/overview.html#Stamps" target="Frame Story">Stamps</a><br> </font></strong>Salt Island Stamps Win<br> 1998 Popularity Poll</p> <p align="center"><a target="Frame Body" href="culture/churches.html"><font size="3"><strong>Churches</strong></font></a><br> <font size="3">Virgin Gorda<br> Easter Festival</font></p> <p align="center"><a href="culture/overview.html#People" target="Frame Story"><strong><font size="3">People</font></strong></a></p> <p align="center"><a href="culture/overview.html#Government" target="Frame Story"><strong><font size="3">Government</font></strong></a></p> <p align="center"><font size="3"><strong><a href="culture/overview.html#Upcoming Events" target="Frame Story">Upcoming Events</a><br> </strong><em>Limin' Times</em><strong><br> <br> <a href="culture/overview.html#NewsLinks" target="Frame Story">NewsLinks</a><br> </strong></font><em>Norman Island Preverved in Natural State</em></p> <div align="center"><center> <table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" width="165"> <tr> <td><p align="center"><font size="3"><strong><a href="Activities/_private/actTOC.html" target="Frame Contents">To Activities</a><br> <a href="culture/_private/cultTOC.html" target="_self">To Cultural Life</a><br> <a href="Nature/_private/natureTOC.html" target="Frame Contents">To Natural 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