Elaine Lepins Estern

Have lived in the Virgin Islands the past 40 + years, I guess this is home! Raised my kids here, and Jon has done the same.
Became a Montessori teacher/administrator, then a Paramedic, and lastly an artist. Have my own gallery, which keeps me extremely busy. Never plan to retire.
Do travel the world in my slow season.

One night, Carla Ackerman (RIP), Suzanne Richards, Nancy Tucker, and myself decided to tear down the "Janio es o Camino" sign, hung high over the main road from the old airport into the city. Early terrorists? We painted our faces with boot black, put on black clothing, only spoke French, and took a taxi to the site. We did manage to climb up the posts, and tear/cut the sign down. Started running when a couple of men tried to stop us. I was the only one caught, but got away with a bite to the man. We all joined up again, took pieces of the tainted sign to save as a keepsake of our shenanigans. And lived to tell about it!
This story was told to my daughter by Carla, at one of our class reunions. I had hidden it deep in the recesses of my memory...