Unfolding a Story

Part 5: To Heal the Mind AND Junkanoo Music with a Cultural Purpose

Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Caperton attends the 2nd Annual Art Lucaya, the Grand Bahama Art Festival that celebrates Grand Bahama's professional & emerging fine artists in a plethera of media. While walking through the festival she meets several artists, one of whom is Ben Ferguson. In addition to exhibiting some of his art, Ben also ansered a call for art by the Inter-Island Traveling Exhibit, funded by the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas in Nassau. He submitted a wall painting project, speaking to the subject of mental health. She visits the site in Freeport, and speaks with Ben, as well as two volunteers.

Caperton also visits the home of Grand Bahama’s legendary Platinum Knights Junkanoo Band, speaking with their leader, Junior, Thomas Curry, Jr. Junkanoo music booms from the rhythms of bass drums, snares, and cow bells, with trumpets and whistles too. Junior is hyper organized with all the prep needed for Platinum Knights to look, sound, and dance their best for the New Year’s Parade on Grand Bahama. While doing this, Junior provides job training assistance in a variety of business ventures he owns, and mentoring many who need a hand up.

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Part 4: Coral Farming at CoraVita

Mon, 21 Sep 2026 04:06:37 GMT

CoralVita is a for-profit, coral farm that restores and preserves coral reefs around the world. CoralVita strives to raise climate-resilient corals in their on-land, farm tanks. These many coral species have been through the micro-fragmentation process, which creates cloned coral masses that are then planted in the oceans near where their host corals were harvested. This protects biodiversity and coastal communities.

Caperton visits CoralVita, the coral farm on Grand Bahama. While one of the interns, all of whom are paid, tours Caperton through the farm, she explains the process of micro-fragmentation, and how this method produces more healthy corals to be implanted into the sea. Caperton then talks with a CoralVita marine ecologist and a marine conservation biologist. She learns about the community outreach for educating the public about the importance of healthy coral reefs.

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Part 3: Replanting the Mangrove Forests with Bonefish and Tarpon Trust AND Waterkeepers Bahamas

Mon, 14 Sep 2026 05:04:52 GMT

Caperton visits the Bone Fish and Tarpon Trust mangrove nursery, and attends the Waterkeepers Bahamas mangrove planting project with two Grand Bahama school groups.

The main directive of BTT is to conserve and restore the fisheries and habitats of bonefish, tarpon, and another ocean fish called permit. And, to do all this they create collaborations with institutions and governments for conducting their own science-based research. BTT is also dedicated to educating the public.

Waterkeepers Bahamas is a member of Waterkeepers Alliance, which is, "a global movement of community based advocates united… for clean, healthy water for all. [Waterkeepers Alliance] educate and train… their local organizations for preparing effective legal challenges to uphold environmental justice.”

Song 1: Bike Sharing to Paradise - Dan Bodan

Song 2: Miles to Go - Joey Pecoraro

Song 3: Heartbeat of the Wind - Asher Fulero

Song 4: The Colonel - Zachariah Hickman

Song 5: Interloper by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Song 6: Ready for More - Ezra Lipp

Song 7: Healing by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Song 8: Acoustic Meditation 2 by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Song 9: Spring Thaw - Asher Fulero

Song 10: Wind Riders - Asher Fulero

Chantal Bethal’s audio clip

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Part 2: Bringing Aid to the Island & Driving with Laurie to view Dorian Damage

Mon, 07 Sep 2026 05:42:24 GMT

Laurie Tuchel drives Caperton east to view the hardest hit parts of the island AND Caperton talks with two people who help bring aid to the most vulnerable of the islanders after Hurricane Dorian finally moves on.

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Part 1: Healing by Art

Mon, 31 Aug 2026 04:48:13 GMT

After the pandemic, distancing protocols eased on Grand Bahama, allowing artists Laurie Tuchel, Jo Morasco, and Chantal Bethal to gather. They discussed an exhibit of their works of art spawned by the devastation of Hurricane Dorian in The One Goat and Three Bird Art Exhibit. Concerned by the warming climate, they invited Coral Vita Co-founder, Gator Halpern and Bonefish and Tarpon Trust representative, Justin Lewis, to speak at the exhibition's opening night reception. They discussed the stress that warming water is having on corals around the world as well as the bonefish, tarpon, and permit fish, and mangroves too.

Music for Part 1

Song 1: Bike Sharing to Paradise - Dan Bodan

Song 2: Miles to Go - Joey Pecoraro

Song 3: Heartbeat of the Wind - Asher Fulero

Song 4: The Colonel - Zachariah Hickman

Song 5: Interloper by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution

4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Artist: http://incompetech.com/

Song 6: Ready for More - Ezra Lipp

Song 7: Healing by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0

license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Artist: http://incompetech.com/

Audio/Video Clip Chantal Bethal’s audio clip

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