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By Remar Sutton - Attitude Advisor
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To make ends meet, Ben continued to farm his sixty fish traps made from genip and birch branches gathered from nearby Big Thatch key, two miles from the art stand.
Ben's family has lived in Apple Bay for four generations. (His parents' graves, marked by four rock mounds, are less than twenty feet from the stand.
Tall and severe-looking until he smiles, Ben has been fishing the waters of Tortola's north shore since he was seven.
"When Ben fished, I sat at the stand, with lots of time on my hands," Nan says, "so I decided to paint a book." The sea turtles off Sandy Spit were her subjects and in 1989, Nan published Toby The Sea Turtle, a children's tale. "Would you believe, on this tiny island I sold a lot of copies" she says.
In 1990 The Further Tales of Toby was published, and by 1994, Nan and Ben's current art stand was in full operation. Now, a new compact station wagon sits by the stand and in mid-June the two leave to summer at their cabin on Grand Isle, Lake Champlain, Vermont.
As I write this, I occasionally turn my head to the left and watch Ben in his small dingy placing a long, graceful seining net off the rocky cliffs which run under my home. Just by turning my head to the right a bit, I can also see Sebastian's Hotel and the art stand, less than a quarter mile from my home.
I am constantly reminded that life can be lived very big and very bravely in tiny distances and small increments as I look around me here in Apple Bay. And I think it's pretty neat that ‘free enterprise' can work in the smallest world.
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