Westward: The Walk of a Bahamian Doctor

1. This is unusual, a memoir written by someone under fifty years of age. What made you write?
My parents were growing old, and I wanted to record their stories for my children. My father, who is halfway through his ninth decade, was born during the heyday of Prohibition, twenty years before the discovery of penicillin and thirty years before the hospital that I was born in was even built. He was the first Bahamian qualified civil engineer, and his connection to the public board of works he...