USVI-On-Line

Today let's go back in time and visit a very interesting lady..... "I climbed a hill that looks down on the multicolored waters of Maho Bay.Across a blue channel the peaks of St.Thomas turned faintly purple in the sunset.Around me the wooded island seemed to have never known the print of a human foot.But suddenly a lady with a hibiscus blossom in her hair appeared on the path below me,followed by a peacock in full plumage.I had come to visit Island Fancy,the home of "Grandma" McCully,but for a moment I thought I had wandered into the Garden of Eden.Soon I was sitting in a airy galler,learning the story of Mrs.Ethel Walbridge McCully."It was a case of love at first sight",she said."I came down from New York for a vacation.In St.Thomas I bought a ticket on a native boat goint to Tortola.When we passed this bay,I didn't want to go any farther.I asked the captain to put me ashore,but he said his clearance papers didn't permit him to touch American soil again.So I said,"let me off on that rock and I'll swim."That is just what I did.She was able to buy land on St.John,because the national park there was not yet established.After four years of travail with unskilled architect{herself} and even more unskilled labor,she built her dream house,Island Fancy.Construction was delayed by such problems as a donkey eating the blueprints.The experience proved so frustrating but amusing that it inspired her to write a book which she dedicated to her seventh grandchild. As we watched the extravaganza of sunset from her gallery, Grandma showed me a tile inscribed with her philopsphy of life. {stay tuned for part two! Parafins

We drove up by the house last year, but wasn't sure if we were allowed to, so we didn't stop....if I recall we were kind of lost and just happened on it.....and I recognized the name Island Fancy.