THE PUBLIC ENEMY OF THE KELPERS – Economic Engine

Alexander Betts Goss was born in the Falkland Islands in the late 1940s. He knew that his parents and grandparents were also born there, and that his great-grandparents had arrived from Ireland and Scotland in 1849. But no one would answer him what was in the islands before 1833. During the war he worked in the ... THE PUBLIC ENEMY OF THE KELPERS Read more »

Every time I asked them the question that bothered them, the teachers only received frowns, hanging muffles, closed mouths. It was never an answer. It was the late 1950s and Alex — still called Alex — was a curious child on a forgotten and impoverished island, where there were fewer and fewer people. There the future and the past looked like: blurry, opaque, unthinkable. No one would answer him when he asked what he wanted to know: what was here…