< Previous Part 5 (Senkyèm): LESSONS Survival Carrefour After returning to the station with Jè, Kevin settles into a routine. The Head Engineer has postponed his vacation. Tim is busy in Petionville, negotiating for a new space to expand the station’s reach with a soft rock radio station for the upper classes. They’ve settled into … Read more
< Previous Part 5 (Senkyèm): LESSONS Choices Ti Legliz Village As the summer draws to a close, the pastors in Cayes and the Americans at Protestant Radio are also starting to ask questions about Kevin’s progress. Jè has been checking in by radio from Carrefour and they’ve agreed that Kevin should return to the station … Read more
< Previous Part 5 (Senkyèm): LESSONS Resilience Ti Legliz Village Kevin spends the rest of his time at Ti Legiz combining trips up and back to the transmitter, sending reports to Tim and the Head Engineer about progress, never mentioning that he’s not camping on the peak. Kevin has finished writing a maintenance report for … Read more
< Previous Sitting on the ground while considering options, Kevin hears new voices. He looks up and is sees an old Haitian man climbing the hill, followed by a young boy. Panielle is already watching carefully. When the man arrives at the tower, he begins telling a lengthy story. Kevin can’t follow it, but Panielle … Read more
< Previous Mount Boeffe, Southern Haiti Mountain Range Their meal complete, Solange and Father Jean say goodbye. “We’ll be over at the orphanage for the rest of the day if anyone needs us.” Henri takes Kevin, Panielle and the rest of the men into a small garden shed behind the chapel. He turns on a … Read more
< Previous Ti Legliz Kevin now sees that this base community is a fortress of sorts. The arrangement of houses around the walled town square with its stone chapel at the center, is a kill zone. While Kevin doesn’t know that it’s happened here, he has heard from reliable sources that it’s not uncommon for … Read more
< Previous Part 4 (Katriyèm): COLLABORATORS Community Department of Sud, Ti Legliz Village Eventually they reach a plateau and the path fades into a small pasture, shaded by fir trees. Some goats wander around with their little fence collars. Haitians long ago figured out that it’s much easier to secure crops from goats by managing … Read more
< Previous Department of Sud, Highway 1 toward Cayes Jè drives the station’s small Geo sport-utility vehicle on the main highway south. Highway 1 is really just a two-lane road with one lane of asphalt shared in each direction. Kevin doesn’t have a driver’s license or any documentation other than his US passport, which is … Read more
< Previous Jè and Kevin chuckle together and return to the jumbled pile of gear. Kevin dumps the entire contents of a bag onto the floor, disgorging a cloud of dust, salt, chemicals, and rat droppings into the work space. Jè does the same with the remaining bag, and a plume of dust fills the … Read more
< Previous Part 4 (Katriyèm): COLLABORATORS Safety First Radio Protestant, Carrefour Kevin spends the next week preparing for his excursion to Mount Boeffe in Southern Haiti. It’s one of the highest peaks on a mountain range that begins near Miragoane and then bisects Haiti’s Southern arm with Cayes to the south and Jeremie to the … Read more