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Peggy C. Hall
Sandra Riley, Peggy Hall, Gus the Greenbear, et all

Who we are and how we live.

We write poems and plays, make art and jewelry, stuff and things.




Some of our stuff is:
Sandra Riley
Sandra Riley is an historian, playwright, director,
teacher and a passionate scholar, who has appeared
at historical conferences across Florida and the
Bahamas. Her book Homeward Bound: A History of
the Bahamas to 1850 is considered a definitive
Bahamian history. She wrote all the text on the
plaques at the Memorial Sculpture Garden on Green
Turtle Cay, a Bahamian National Monument, and
she has rendered archaeological assistance at both
the Miami Circle and the Carleton Loyalist
settlement on Abaco. Her Bahamas research of the
Pre-Columbian period and of the Great Age of
Piracy resulted in her novels The Lucayans, and
Sisters of the Sea: Anne Bonny and Mary Read—
Pirates of the Caribbean. She presented a paper at
the 47 th International Congress of Americanists at
Tulane University in New Orleans in 1991.

Riley holds a Master of Arts degree from the
University of Michigan, and has directed over eighty
plays for high school, professional and community
theatre, in South Florida, the Bahamas and Japan.
She created the original Theatre Arts program for
the International Baccalaureate program, for which
the city of Coral Gables honored her in 1994. To
date, she has written and directed solo dramas
about historical Bahamian figures, including Matt
Lowe, Miss Ruby, and Mariah Brown, the Coconut
Grove pioneer who first brought Afro-Bahamian
culture to Miami. Her latest work, Paradise Now,
recreates the universe of the Taino at the moment
of Columbus' arrival in the New World.
click here to see Sandy's CV
PEGGY C. HALL is a Kentucky native, a
Florida transplant and an Idaho trekker.
As an educator for 30 years, she wrote
educational programs, book reviews and
occasional essays. Peggy has won
numerous poetry awards, including a Top
Ten Finalists' Award in ByLine Magazine's
Annual Awards (2003), and First Place for
Traditional Poetry in the Alabama Writers'
Conclave (2005).

Her poems have appeared in venues such
as Frost Notes, Thema, Bibliophilos,
Mobius, Exit 13, VQ Online, The
Anthology of New England Writers, Poetry
of the People, Red Owl, Golden Words,
Poets at Work, and Sincerely, Elvis .
IN CASE OF BEARS is her first collection
of Poetry.