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The Triumph of Willard Wigan
As a young child, Willard Wigan battled with the agony of the then undiagnosed dyslexia. Cruelly, his teachers reprimanded his aloofness by parading him in front of the entire school allowing others to taunt and jeer at his below average performance. Destined to be a failure and continually told that he would amount to nothing, it was the constant encouragement from his mother that led Willard to rise above his learning misfortune, discover his God-given talent, and nurture his skills to become the most successful miniature sculptor in the world.
This magnificent gift came from God, but the nurturing to develop it came from somewhere almost heavenly: the persistent urging of parents that knew their son had value and talent that he needed to discover. It was the determination of his Jamaican-born mother that was the catalyst that led Willard to discovering his talent. “My mother took me aside one day and said ‘You can’t read or write, so what are you going to do? When you find something you can do, let me know and I will help you.’”
Charged with these instructions, a curious and playful Willard set out to build homes for the ants that had piled themselves onto the kitchen floor of his Birmingham, England home. Willard’s first pieces were a home and a merry-go-round for his little friends. His mother kept encouraging him to go smaller and smaller with his pieces until at the age of 7, when his work became microscopic. Forty-five years later Willard’s collection includes about 120 miniature sculpture pieces.
The materials used to apply his craft are simple enough, things you would find in every day life like flecks of gold, grains of sand, particles of dust and nylon. To paint his sculptures he uses hair off a fly’s back – “a dead fly” he hastily assures me, or one of his own eyelashes. It is hard to believe that anything so small could give that military precision needed. . read more...
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Caribbean American Entrepreneurs Brighten the Fabric of American Society
Caribbean immigrants, a disparate group scattered across the breadth of the United States of America, have made an indelible mark on the fabric of the United States.
The Presidential Proclamation designating June as Caribbean American Heritage Month has officially--some say, belatedly--acknowledged the enormous contribution that immigrants from the Caribbean have made in practically all spheres of American life.
Dr. Claire Nelson is regarded in many circles as the spiritual mother of the movement to have an officially designated Caribbean American Heritage Month.
“Caribbean Immigrants have played an intimate role in the fabric of America and we have contributed to its growth and development” Dr. Nelson said.
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