Bushlands
Personal memory by Norman K.S.
1983 CE - 1993 CE • Portmore, St. Catherine, Jamaica
Growing up in Jamaica, my community was surrounded by bushlands until I was ten. We could go there for firewood, use it for grazing animals, get broom weed to make brooms at home and have the cooling effects of the trees. The trees are now gone. In their place is a massive suburb.
Memory submitted at One Life: Maya Lin, National Portrait Gallery, 2022
Image: Nick Sherman via Flickr, Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
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