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Life on the very small Caribbean island of Montserrat was postcard perfect, with year-round sunshine, air conditioning breezes, lush vegetation, gleaming seas, and a flourishing vacationer industry. That was until 18th July 1995 when the island's volcano erupted after 400 years, taking over twenty years of danger and uncertainty. Plenty Mango tells the island's story through the eyes of Sarah Dickinson who, with her architect man, followed a fantasy to build luxury Caribbean-style villas on Montserrat. They only needed to build yet another house to break even, and then have their plans shattered by the volcano. Plenty Mango can be an intimate portrait of the island's peoples, such as Cynthia, the Honey Sweetheart, Moose and his "credibility" bar, Sir George Martin and his Air Studios, the tiler who brews his very own mango 'poteen', Victor's storage area that offers Bibles alongside brake pads, and the goat herd who noticed the mountain "'groanin" many calendar months before the volcano blew. We meet a few of the ex-pats who love to get together, with the excuse, "Hell, it's six o'clock someplace in the world." "Jumbie" ghosts are almost everywhere, as are the Masquerade dancers whose exciting costumes and heady rhythms take you back in its history. You'll join in the St. Patrick's Day week-long festival, celebrating the island's Irish roots and follow the large loudspeakers leading the "hop up", Regardless of the hardship and doubt, Montserratians remain positive and undefeated. They never say "goodbye", only'Il go another.
