School Daze & Beyond

About the Book

This book is a compilation of true events which occured in the author's childhood, teenage years...and beyond. It tells of community life in a British Colony, the discipline and respect for authority, spiritual lessons taught, the happy times enjoyed by all before the advent of television and video games, doing chores, truancy and skirmishes which makes one aware that "there is nothing new under the sun."

A brief history of the area known as Linden which was settled by the Scottish in the late 1700's,the first of whom was R.F.Allicock, the ancestor of most of my schoolmates, is also included.

The book concludes with a history of the author's family, both maternal and paternal branches. Special emphasis is placed on the role played by the author's mother in binding and keeping the family together through trying times, her demise as a result of a politically engineered terrorist attack in 1964,and the rewards of her labours which followed her.

About the Author

Born on the East Coast of Demerara, Vashti Hinds was mostly raised in the Upper Demerara River district of the Christiansburg which is a component of what is now known as Linden. She attended the Church of Scotland School at Christiansburg, then St. Joseph's Convent High School in Georgetown before leaving British Guiana at age 16 to attend Caribbean Union College in Trinidad. Her nursing career took her to New York where she obtained a Master's Degree in Community Health from Long Island University. Now retired, she fondly revisits her childhood memories and was thrilled to record a portion of it.