Culture

Select a Culture Article About That Wave AC/DC Anancy Birth of Jam Band Bonfire Charcoal Conch Shell Lamps Description of St. John in 1925 Description of St. John in 1967 Development-1937 Perspective East End Fishing Food For Thought Elroy Sprauve - Estate Seiban English Language on St. John Griffith & Paret I-Tal Land Crabs Lobster Hunt Picking Salt Prohibition Story Queen's Lincoln St. John Coffee St. John Music Scene Stuart Little West Indian Checkers Virgin Islands Holidays 1907 Day Trip to St John ----Stories---- Art & Janis Conch Tale Debt Great Hot Pepper Sauce Contest Papa Doc Pelican & the Gull Sucker -----Magic & Supernatural----- Donkey Foot Wowan Jumbie Tree Magic Noir Xtabay Woman

These pages deal with St. John Virgin Islands cultural information.

What was it like before tourism?

Read articles about the old days, fishing, music, bonfire, picking salt, hunting crabs and diving conch.

Find out why English is spoken in these former Danish islands and why on St. John and in the Virgin Islands we drive on the left.

Also here you'll find articles about magic and obeah, St. John folklore, music, poetry, stories and more.