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I was attending Keswick Mountain High School when they assassinated Martin Luther King. We had some Peace Corps volunteers at the school. They were from various countries but they were Caucasian people. When were came to school that morning caricatures of all the Peace Corps volunteers were panted on the walls of the building facing where we normally had our morning assembly. None of them showed up for assembly. I don't know if they were scared or what. All of us were in shock that somebody could do such a brazen act. Suspicion fell on a dreadlocks who lived near the school. I don't think the police were called in and the matter had a peaceful ending.

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Whatever happened to the old country buses? They used to be our only means of transportation in the old days. One bus ran from Glengoffe to Kingston. It would leave Big Roads in the mornings at about 5.00am. The bus was called Above Rocks Special. It was owned by a man named Kervin. Cyrill Malabre and a man called Mr Will were some of the loaders. The bus would go to Harkers Hall then turn back and head for Kingston. Incidentally, there was a morning bus traveling from Kingston and coming through Above Rocks. It was one of the Blue Mist buses. It went as far as Kellits in Clarendon in the mornings. Students from St. Mary's College usually took it to school in the mornings. Another Blue Mist bus also came up from Kinsgton in the morning, traveling the Stony Hill, Cassava River route. It went through Linstead to Kellits. These routes were often dangerous and the buses had to negotiate break aways and very narrow roads. There were often accidents and people were killed when a bus fell

Two women are fighting to see who will get lover boy, Grant Harper. This story is included in my newest collection of short stories' I'm back from the Hills Now'. It will be available on Amazon and payhip. It's about twenty two pages long. It's a very intriguing story as these two young girls battle it out to see who will Gran't love. Even then the battle isn't over because, it's who can keep that love burning. A very interesting story.

No, there weren't identical twins. Weston Brown and Freddie Brown were brothers.They used to work as Weston Brown. I first met Weston at a government department, Downtown, Kingston in the late seventies. Both of us were temporary office clerks. Surprisingly, I have never seen Weston again. Two jobs and maybe about five years later I encountered a man calling himself, Weston Brown. He resembled the first Weston and based on what I had heard was from the same area. We were both clerks at Jackson Wright insurance brokerage firm. People who knew the first Weston said that the second Weston was working in his brother's name. The second Weston told me that the first Weston's real name was Freddie. He lent him his certificates to look a job as he didn't have any qualifications. But senior staff at Jackson Wright's agency complained bitterly about Weston's poor performance. Jackson was forced to fire him. I left the firm a year later having gotten a better job offer. O

I penned this letter to a newspaper but never spent it. The Editor Sir, It might not be a crime fighting measure but I believe it's time where just like in the United States the license plates of all vehicles should be identified by the parish in which the owner lives or operates the vehicle. If such a system were introduced into Jamaica I don't think most of those gangsters could move so easily between parishes as most of them are mobile.Readers remember my books on Amazon.com, payhip.com and lulu. Just type Austin Mitchell in the search engine to find my books.

A man told me that he lost about half a million dollars gambling jackpot machine(one armed bandit).I used to play it and maybe I've lost that amount of money. I now detest gambling. You are always losing when you gamble. Some persons gamble and win huge amounts of money and are now not happy. I used to think that this man was winning thousands of dollars at jackpot only to realize that he was losing his shirt.

Me and Norris Reid used to attend the same high school. I was two years ahead of him. About five years after I left school I met him in Half Way Tree. He had some voluminous law books. We got to talking and he started telling me about his professors at the university. Frankly he left me wide-eyed as I didn't know that he was doing law. I know that you had to get some pretty good grades to get into the law faculty. I am not one to put down others. A month later I saw one of Norris' classmates. I asked if he knew that Norris was studying law at the University. He expressed surprise. Some months later I saw Norris again. He accused me of spreading rumors about him. I didn't know what to make of the whole thing. Why was he walking around with law books and talking about professors as if he was in daily contact with them? I haven't heard that he was crazy or anything like that but I still found it very strange. Please visit the Austin G Mitchell pages at Amazon to have a lo

Living in rural Jamaica in the sixties we didn't have the comfort of walking into a supermarket, taking the goods we are going to buy and either put them in a trolley or a basket before we head for the cashier. Instead we would head for the corner shop and order our groceries. At Easter time we would order our buns from a woman called Miss Lou Jim. She was a spinster who lived alone and who incidentally was my god mother. I can't remember where the cheese came from or how many buns there were or the price of those buns.

It was in the 1960's that I went to Kingston to spend a week with relatives. I thoroughly enjoyed myself. We didn't have television in rural Jamaica at this time.I got to watch black and white television. I still remembered on of the shows that intrigued me and it was about Rob Roy Mc Gregor. I saw baseball being played at the Machado Sports club on South Camp Road.There was also a branch of a famous supermarket nearby. I also spent a night on Lyndhurst Road. Kingston has changed a whole lot from those days.

Today I heard an historian talking about all the great people who had come out of East Kingston. They included famous athletes, footballers, cricketers,musicians, educators, doctors. I am encouraging some historian to write a book about not only East Kingston but other areas in Kingston that has produced great people. Indeed I want to encourage Jamaicans to write books about their particular neck of the woods. We cannot let other people write our history for us.I know that we an oral society but but as I have said it is dangerous to let other people write your history.

GOING INTO THE HILLS TO TEACH-Revisited- Short Summary of these Stories: After he stole the bank’s vault, Dex became a serial killer. Read more in the Money Vault. Will Miss Della regret accommodating her younger brother and his son for one night? Read more in Miss Della’s Radio. Gamblers get get into the habit of being poor losers. Read more in the Robber Gamblers. Contractor fails to turn up to honor his contractual obligations. Read more in the Fraudulent Contractor. Will Cora be tricked out of her hard earned possessions for a third time? Reade more in Three times a Loser. Several of her former baby fathers have heard of Raquel’s good fortune in winning a lot of money at the race track. They want to get a share of it but will she let them? Read the full story in If you win big don’t lose it. Jeannie has put herself into so much debt to help her on again, off again boyfriend, Jake. Now she is looking more money to bail him out of his latest indiscretion. Read the full story

TAKING A SHORTCUT HOME Short Summary of Stories: After many years of not seeing each other, two friends hardly have time to get reacquainted, before one of them is caught up in an ugly incident. Read the full story in The Incident at Mc Alpine Street. Caston didn’t want any trouble, but bully boy, Keswick, wouldn’t let him be. Read all about Caston’s reaction to his taunts in The Stabbing Incident. When Carlene’s dead body was found in a dry river bed, suspicions immediately fell on her boyfriend, Denzil Barned. He was the one who had found her body. Ambitious young Sergeant, Peter Brown, is out to gain more stripes by pinning the murder on him. Read the full story in The Body in the River. How did Pearline and her associates get away with running an illegal Cash Pot operation for so long? Read the full story in Instant Cash. Before he went to America, Pablo used to be bullied by the other village boys. Read about what happened when he returned from America in The Story of Pab

WAITING TO CROSS THE BRIDGE Short Summary of Stories: Why did Alton’s boss want to get rid of him? He had just given him a vote of confidence at the latest staff appraisal a week ago. Read the full story in The Forgiving. The latest hurricane had provided opportunities for Junklin and his friends. But had it or was it just an illusion? Read more in Spoils from the Hurricane. Why couldn’t Cora pass any examinations at her local school? Find out what happened when she moved to a different school. All told, in Examination Blues. Berbice entered the eating contest as the underdog. Find out what happened in The Breadfruit Feast. Why did a grown man get so worked up whenever anybody called him by his nickname? Read the full story in What’s in a Nickname? A group of school boys form a gang and force their fellow students to pay them protection money. Read the full story in The Crabtree Gang. Why was Clem Baxter in this great hurry to sell off his properties? Read the full story in