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Stories by Marcia Thomas/Contributor

Published:Monday | September 22, 2025 | 12:09 AMMarcia Thomas/Contributor

My article on the history of Hannah Town, which was published in The Gleaner on August 25, had feedback from people who grew up in and around Hannah Town in the 1950s. These readers pointed to omissions about Hannah Town in my original article. I...

Published:Monday | September 1, 2025 | 12:09 AMMarcia Thomas/Contributor

For those of the 20th century, Rae Town was known as an elite community between the asylum and the prison. There are many Jamaicans and descendants living at home and abroad who have fond memories of pre-Independence Rae Town when there were...

Published:Monday | August 25, 2025 | 12:08 AMMarcia Thomas/Contributor

My grandfather, Peter Bernard Thomas (1878-1952) and his wife, Emerline Adina Thomas (1881-1969), lived in Hannah Town for most of their lives through its cycles of ups and downs. My father, Samuel Thomas (1904-1977), grew up there. From all...

Published:Monday | August 11, 2025 | 12:11 AMMarcia Thomas/Contributor

In Jamaica these days, there are versions of history based on fiction, not facts. There are those mythologising Jamaica’s history. The fiction has taken hold and is hard to correct, as many people prefer fiction over facts. Fiction provides a...

Published:Monday | August 4, 2025 | 12:07 AMMarcia Thomas/Contributor

Travelling along Michael Manley Boulevard, I saw a most impressive house that seemed like a great house and decided to investigate it. In this investigation, I discovered the community of Springfield-on-Sea in now Springfield Gardens in East...

Published:Monday | October 28, 2024 | 12:06 AMMarcia Thomas/Contributor

Shortwood Teachers’ College was established on the 28th of September 1885 to train female teachers resulting from the development programmes of Governor Sir John Peter Grant. It was then called the Jamaica Female Training College. In June 1887,...

Published:Monday | October 7, 2024 | 12:07 AMMarcia Thomas/Contributor

A family from Manchester named Nash has made a great contribution to promoting and developing Jamaica’s cultural heritage both at the national and international levels over 170 years. The story is that, in the late 1830s, three brothers, George,...

Published:Wednesday | March 22, 2023 | 12:48 AMMarcia Thomas/Contributor

Norman Washington Manley (1893-1969), national hero of Jamaica, chief minister, premier, and founder of the People’s National Party and the National Workers’ Union, acquired Drumblair Pen in 1924 when he was a barrister-at-law. He sold it in 1927...

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