Emmie,

I think the tourist board subject is better kept here maybe.

Not sure what you mean by taking the narrative too far. It was what it was.

Bellamena; John B.; Peas & Rice &c all have very well documented Bahamian histories. Those histories are overwhelmingly associated with the Bahamian government and the Bay Street, Nassau tourist industry. The latter run mostly by the Yanks.

Check your own citations and references. By the numbers, where do they come from?

Lomax, of course, the main exception. By the time he showed John B. had appeared in newspapers thousands of miles away yet it's presented as if in cultural isolation, not just from the mainland, but from Bay Street as well!

I don't buy it. You'll never convince me cultural exchange is a one way street. Nassau is to the Family Islands what the mainland is to Nassau. Big gorilla.