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Tortola August Festival

The Yacht, FLIGHT Takes Party-Goers to Tortola ~ 1946

The FLIGHT brings party-goers to Tortola for the August Festival in the 1940s.

For many years members of our family enjoyed the annual August festival in Tortola! Here is an excerpt of an article written by W. Evelyn Pickering.   It appeared in the August 17, 1946,  VI Daily News. Below the article is a link to the kind of music played by band, Conjuncto Tropical. Can you imagine the party-goers dancing to this and the […]

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