History is alive

Mar 25, 2015 Letters

Dear Editor,
“Let’s Make a Difference”
My understanding of an historian is one who is qualified academically to give facts and not necessarily the truth on past events, for example, time, years, landmarks, people and things. People must know that all historic writings contain untrue revelations which cause us to differ in conversations and argue unnecessarily only to discover the truth was not told. Rather, fact was put together not to confuse us, but to make and conclude a nice story.
While the Politics and the Politicians are enjoying themselves, the ordinary citizens are surviving on the crumbs. I am a Lindener and we are caught in a serious political conflict which is pointing us nowhere. It is said, “A fool could lead the educated, if the educated is not knowledgeable of the issue at hand. We gather quite regularly reflecting on the past, who did what to whom, where, and when politically and we remember how the U.S.A gained its Independence and how democratic it is and its various important days, for example: Martin Luther King Day (the great freedom fighter), Christopher Columbus Day (the great discoverer), Thanksgiving Day (the day of killing turkey), St. Patrick’s Day and the list goes on.
Lindeners have forgotten our own history we have forgotten those who came before us, for example: Ms. Ariminta Parris (Mother P) a person who provided meals for decades to people of Wismar, Christianburg and Mackenzie, also visitors, Mr. Hugh Harris a dispenser who performed duties as a Doctor, attended to the sick, he was referred to as Doctor Harris, Alfie Collin, Linden’s first Guyana Scholar, George Parris, the longest serving bauxite employee, Ms. Gloria Layne, the first female Mayor in Guyana.
Mr. Festus Adams, Businessman and member of the Local Authority, Mr. James Moseley, member of the Local Authority, Egbert Benjamin, Linden Town First Mayor and there are many other Lindeners who have made outstanding contributions towards the development of Linden Town. I therefore suggest to the Linden Town Day Committee that they place a name to each day we celebrate during that period.
Historic structures in Linden Town are in bad condition, for example: the Christianburg Water Wheel or Hydro Sawmill, the Hamilton Sawmill Boiler. Historic information is mounted and all of the organisers of activities seem not to care. Another serious issue within the Town of Linden is people are given jobs to remove, construct and rebuild structures. These are people who have no historic knowledge of Wismar, Christianburg and Mackenzie and they do make a mess of things sometimes.
I refer to the rebuilding of the Guyana Revenue Office within the Linmine office compound which is situated north of an establish road (the Hibiscus Lane) which is now filled with heaps of mud and burnt bricks placed there by the contractor who is unaware a road exist there.
As a citizen of this Town, I cry out to our leaders and councillors to be more observant and forceful in their duty.
The Hibiscus Lane needs to be restored to its former glory, its history. The General office, another historic building, and the Christianburg Court House, need to be preserved. Those graves within the court yard compound must also be preserved; it’s an 1855 thing.
Sometimes we operate in haste only to our own detriment. The Regional Democratic Council and the Mayor and Town Council have a responsibility to the people of Linden town.
There are many untruths in the writing of history, but history is not dead. Man will die but history will live on and on.
B. Winslow Parris

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