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Tombraiding has been Hollywood glamourised through the Indiana Joneses and Lara Crofts and a range of new video games that play on this land-based version of the kind of piracy that used to prevail on the high seas around the Caribbean. And it dates back to the Caribbean as a target in the quest for El Dorado so many millennia ago. Not
to be confused with body snatchers, it ranges from the activities of hobbyists seemingly
innocently eager to hoard a bit of history so they comb graveyards to gather
bits and pieces from or off tombs, to petty thieves looking to earn a quick
shilling, to highly organised crime networks trading in black market heritage
goods with complicity by individual collectors or even museum dealers
participating in a very lucrative heritage trade market.
The marble tombstone of one of Trinidad and Tobago’s oldest,
wealthiest and most influential lineages involving the genealogies of some 20
prominent families with ancestral ties through European, North and South
American, Africa, Asia and the Caribbean, has been vandalised and defaced.We discovered this on the inaugural LiTTour – Journeys Through the
Landscapes of Fiction from Trinidad and Tobago, on our way to ‘save’ another
heritage building - the old Mayaro Post Office which is represented as a key
literary house in my book LiTTscapes
– Landscapes of Fiction from Trinidad and Tobago as the setting of several of the
novels and short stories of Michael Anthony.
At least two communities have committed to taking charge of
their heritage elements following the inaugural LiTTour – Journeys Through the
Landscapes of Fiction from Trinidad and Tobago - last week. 
The Sangre Grande local authorities welcomed our initiative as in keeping with their heritage developmental plans and promoting heritage tourism and will be working with us to develop the ground infrastructure. In Mayaro, th Historical Society that has been somewhat in stasis for the last eight years felt rejuvenated to engage in its own actions that will reawaken the Old Mayaro Post Office ... truly, truly encouraging and energising all of it! How important is ground action and community engagement while attempting to motivate the decision and policy makers too!!!! Photo by Kriston Chen of Artist Anthony Timothy sketching elements of LiTTour - JourneysThrough the Landscapes of Fiction from Trinidad and Tobago
The inaugural LiTTour partners with the
Public Service Transport Corporation Know Your Country tours and will involve a guided tour from Port of
Spain to Mayaro with a PiTTstop (the local term for a refreshment break) in
Sangre Grande. Enroute and at both stops there will be readings and
presentations on the landscapes of fiction, and entertainment that draws from
local community talent. The LiTTour will also pay particular attention to two
heritage buildings represented in LiTTscapes – the former Sangre Grande and the
Mayaro Post Offices. The Mayaro building features in many of the works by Anthony,
who will guide tour participants through the districts represented in hisworks
such as Green Days by the River, Sandra Street and A Year in San Fernando. 
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| LOOKING AT DISPLAYS: Dr Jean Ramjohn Richards and Dr Kris Rampersad look at display of books by T&T authors from the bibliography of LiTTscapes — Landscapes of Fiction from Trinidad and Tobago, laid out at Knowsley in Port of Spain for the LiTTribute to the Republic on Saturday. —Photos: Kenrick Ramjit |
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