By Richard Johnson—-
“You will never understand what this means to me. Most people lay their parents to rest and are able to forget about them. That does not happen to me as I have to speak about them so often. But I am so proud of the work they did and that it is now at the National Library of Jamaica,” Coverley told the gathering.
The Miss Lou Archives is housed in special collections at the library and can be accessed online with the actual collection available to researchers.
Culture Minister Olivia “Babsy” Grange noted that the Miss Lou Archives, like the just-opened Peter Tosh Museum, represents that piece of Jamaica history of which we can be proud.
Born in Kingston in 1919, Miss Lou was educated at Excelsior High School. Through her body of publications in Jamaican creole, and her acting skills, she raised the dialect of the Jamaican folk to an art level, capturing its subtlety and its humor. She was awarded an Order of Jamaica by the Government for her contribution to the island’s culture in 2004. Her husband, Eric, predeceased her in 2002. She died in Canada in 2006. Her remains, and that of her husband, were returned to Jamaica for interment.
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