A 'touch' of history
A touch in time - Toshtica Sang (left) and Nicola Anderson get a feel of this African mask "This is fun, a lot of fun," said a group of 10 students in unison as they gathered around a table with artefacts. What is the fun element, one might ponder. These students from The Salvation Army School for the Blind and Visually Impaired were about to experience a time travel of sorts. On the table in front of them was a selection of artefacts from different periods of the history of Jamaica - a drum, a horn, an African mask, Taino implements and a jug with spoons. They covered a timeline, and had a different feel to each of them - smooth, light-weight, multi-dimensional. "Lord have mercy!" exclaimed Toshtica Sang as she picked up a pewter flagon. "This is so heavy. I am going to fall down." Her colleague, Nicola Anderson, grabbed the pewter flagon, (pewter is an alloy of tin hardened with small amounts of other metals such as copper, lead, zinc, antim