When I founded Androsia in 1970 there was such an optimistic sense of "we" in the air. Lynden Pindling had come home from his law studies in London with a mission in his mind and a fire in his heart. He was leading us into independence.

"We" were going to become an independent nation. "We" could do it! He captured the hearts and minds of the Bahamian people.
On Andros - oh  Andros my Andros! - there were women who needed work and I too had been caught up in the optimism and thought, "Why not? We can do it! Of course we can!" We didn't know how to batik fabric, that was something they did in other parts of the world. In India and Malaysi ...

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