Thinking about the
far away days when there was no television, and home entertainment was only radio or
storytelling for the children in the yard at nights, if you were lucky to have
parents or any adults who had not yet divorced themselves from their rural connections
and had a fount of these stories to share.
The stories were very scary and to hear
the adults tell it, even more so in the rural setting where the only light was
from the moon as they gathered in front of someone's house to hear about the hauntings
of duppies or the antics of Anancy. Many are the stories about not being able to
walk home in the country darkness, especially if alone.
But, what I have come
to realize is that the greater part of the experience was the sense of community;
the coming together, the feeling of camaraderie as people laughed together or
commented on aspects of the story or added their own witty comments. It was
also a learning experience for the children as the adults commented on the wisdom
or error of the ways of the characters in the stories.
Domestic entertainment
today is fast becoming an individual event, between the I -phones and I -pads and
I -tablets and I - laptops . . . you name it everything is now I. Even the
gathering of the family in the living room
to watch television together is fast becoming a thing of the past as each
person does his/her own thing on some electronic
devise. Such a loss.
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