In the late 1970’s we moved into the small and isolated community of McBride, in BC’s Robson Valley. For 4 years, my wife and I had been living in even smaller places without any friends our own age, so we hoped that in the Robson Valley, we would develop friendships with people who had common values, and fortunately, that is exactly what we found. For us, the 1980’s and 90’s became the Golden Age of our social life.
One big reason for all of that exciting social life was our neighbors Kjell and Celine. They were very social-oriented and who were constantly organizing “theme” parties, where party-goers were expected to dress up to fit the chosen theme of the party. The food, music, and entertainment were also expected to fit the party’s theme, and were always wonderful. We were amazed at how the participants could always come up with, and create; unique costumes for the theme, from items they found in our tiny one-horse Village of McBride.
This morning while going through one of my old file folders, I found the invitation I created for the “Night in Jamaica” party that our neighbors put on. I was always given the task of creating the invitations to the parties and you can see what I came up with for the Jamaica party. This was before you could do much on a computer, so I had to use pen, photos, and a black and white photocopier.
I think I dressed up as a plantation owner to the party.
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