Book about an Extraordinary Event in Caribbean History

Launch in Toronto, Sat., Nov. 5

VIP Reception and Prizes

 WHAT           Book Launch & Reception of best selling Caribbean book.

Belvidere Estate – Fédon’s House: GRENADA – Voices from the Past

By Herman G. Hall.

The book focuses on a dramatic event in Grenada’s history: iJulien Fédon and the Fédon’s Rebellion of 1795.

WHEN           Saturday, November 5, 2016 @ 5pm.

WHERE            Tropicana Community Center

1385 Huntingwood Drive @ McCowan, Scarborough, Toronto.

ALL INVITED   Everyone is invited and a chance to win Fabulous Prizes.

 Today, there is a thirst to learn about singular episodes in the Caribbean past. People are anxious to enjoy easy reading, informative and brilliant books. Herman G. Hall “Belvidere Estate – Fédon’s House: Grenada – Voices from the Past” is well received and appreciated by a cross section of readers. As the New York Daily News states, “Hall brings Julien Fédon to life with a skillful meld of powerful Caribbean history and personal memories.” Everyone is invited to the Launch and Reception on Saturday, November 5 @ 5pm at Tropicana Community Center, 1385 Huntingwood Drive @ McCowan, Scarborough and a chance to win Fabulous Prizes.

Oliver Samuels, OD, Actor & Comedian states, “Informative! The mysterious Julien Fédon and loquacious Belvidere laborers will make a dazzling theatrical production.”

“What fascinates me most about this book is: It reminds me of growing up in Morant Bay, Jamaica; I never knew Grenada had maroons too,” writes Ivy Hue.

This tantalizing book provides:

*A historical account of Julien Fédon and the Fédon’s Revolution

*A memoir of plantation life in Colonial Grenada and other Caribbean islands

*A coming-of-age story about the author

Was Julien Fédon who was never captured dead or alive influenced by the American War of Independence, the Haitian and French Revolutions? Had George Washington and Thomas Jefferson accept a plea from mulatto French-Grenadians, could the Fédon’s Rebellion be avoided?  Twentieth and 21^st century Grenadian leaders motivated by Julien Fédon included Prime Minister Eric Gairy who led Grenada into independence in 1974 and Prime Minister Maurice Bishop.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Herman G. Hall is an award winning print and radio journalist, producer and promoter of Caribbean theater; he traveled with President Ronald Reagan on his 1982 trip to Jamaica and Barbados and an accredited member of the media at the  two inaugurations of President Barack Obama. Hall was born on Belvidere Estate, Grenada.

For a schedule of upcoming book tour and to interview the author, email him: [email protected]

The book, Belvidere Estate – Fedon’s House, about a 1795 rebellion which commenced in the towns of Gouyave and La Baye, will be launched at the Gouyave Public Library today, Fri., Sep. 23 at 5:30pm.

Gouyave is the hometown of the world’s famous Olympian Kirani James and the Mighty Sparrow. The author and EVERYBODY’S publisher, Herman Hall, attended the Anglican Primary School in Gouyave.

Yesterday, the book was successfully launched at Marryshow House, UWI Campus, St. George’s. The author expresses his thanks to all who attended especially people who came from other parishes.

PHOTOS: Autograph session and author with two of his UK-born cousins on vacation in Grenada, Patsy and Margaret.

Belvidere Estate – Fedon’s House, a book on Julien Fedon who freed all slaves in Grenada in 1795 has been presented to Prime Minister Keith Mitchell.  The author, EVERYBODY’S Magazine publisher, Herman Hall, is promoting the book in Trinidad & Tobago and Grenada before he moves on to Jamaica and other Caribbean states.

On Thursday, 5:30 pm, the book is scheduled for launching at the historic Marryshow House, St. George’s, Grenada, home of the UWI in Grenada; Friday, Sep. 23, 5:30pm, a formal launch will be in Gouyave, hometown of Olympian Kirani James and the Mighty Sparrow.

While the setting of this easy reading history book is Belvidere Estate, Grenada, Hall emphasizes that the book is related to readers across the Caribbean and the Caribbean diaspora. It is a presentation of plantation life in colonial West Indies and growing up in pre-independence English speaking Caribbean.

Prime Minister Keith Mitchell will be at the funeral of Dr. Lamuel Stanislaus, on Saturday morning in Brooklyn, NY. The Prime Minister confirmed his travel plan to EVERYBODY’S Magazine this morning.

In a chat with the publisher of EVERYBODY’S at the prime minister’s office in St. George’s this morning, the Prime Minister said, “Dr. Stanislaus has been a special Grenadian in any description one can give. He was to me a special human being. I have always said that outside of my mom, I don’t know any one closest to that special description as Dr. Stanislaus. … The people of Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique have lost a beloved son and a very great human being … He was a friend of almost every Caribbean national in New York.”

Caribbean-Americans living in Hempstead, NY, site of the first presidential debate on September 26 between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, are voting solidly for Hillary Clinton based on EVERYBODY’S Magazine presidential poll.

Hempstead, a suburb of New York City, has middle and upper middle class nationals from Jamaica, Grenada, Barbados, Trinidad & Tobago and other islands. Many Caribbean-American entrepreneurs who are shippers, owners of restaurants and bakeries in Brooklyn and Queens dwell in Hempstead.

As part of EVERYBODY’S Presidential Poll based on our subscribers nationwide, 8 questionnaires were mailed to subscribers in Hempstead (zip code 11550) where the magazine has approximately 150 subscribers. Of the seven persons who responded to the questionnaire, they all indicated they are voting for Mrs. Clinton.

Based on the magazine’s poll Mrs. Clinton will get 96.7% of the Caribbean-Americans vote even more than what then Senator Barack Obama got in 2008.

The magazine presidential questionnaire was mailed to at least one subscriber in each zip code across the US where the magazine has a subscriber.  To get details of the survey order the September edition: www.everybodysmag.com.

There were multiple shootings during this morning Caribbean Carnival in the segment called J’Ouvert. The event started at Grand Army Plaza and ended at Nostrand Ave @ Clarkson Ave, East Flatbush, Brooklyn, a prominent Caribbean neighborhood. On Empire Blvd. at least one person was shot and more in other areas along the J’Ouvert route.

J’Ouvert is organized by a different group and not the West Indian -American Carnival Day Association, the organizer of the carnival later today on Eastern Parkway. This year, for the first time, Mayor Bill de Blasio and Brooklyn Borough President Adams officially recognized J’Ouvert

The politicians or their offices promoted J’Ouvert in bad taste by having pre-teenage children grace the promotional poster. “Someone ought to tell them J’Ouvert is for adults not for little children,” Hilda, a J’Ouvertplayer,  remarked this morning.

With so much publicity on J’Ouvert most cops and the mainstream are asking what is J’Ouvert. The Mayor de Blasio and Borough President Adams may have unintentionally mislead the public by giving the impression that J’Ouvert is the main event and not the Carnival-Parade on Eastern Parkway later today.

There may have been 200,000 revelers in this morning J’Ouvert.

PHOTO: Yvette Rennie, longtime organizer of J’Ouvert this morning.

When EVERYBODY’S asked J’Ouvert organizer Yvette Rennie about the shootings, “I cannot talk about that now,” she said.

As early as Sunday afternoon East Flatbush looked like a war zone with hundreds of police officers at various intersections.

For photos of this morning J’Ouvert see our slide show.