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About Enchanted-Isle.Com
Enchanted Isle was given Yes, this is my website. My name is Jim Starke. I lived in Vieques from about 1982 to sometime in 1998. I used to be a Contractor on the island and in Rhode Island, where I'm originally from. I traveled back and forth with my tools for a few years until I settled in Vieques full time in Destino. I bought a house there just before Hurricane Hugo, and a couple of years later, my wife, whom I met in Vieques, and I started Isla Vieques Condiment Co., a hot sauce manufacturing company and we ran that from Vieques from about 1991 until we moved it to Florida in 1998. While we were making hot sauces (a lot of them), I started this website in 1994 on my personal Sprynet account to help promote tourism for Vieques, as the Puerto Rican government wasn't even doing it back then for the Big Island. As the island's business grew, so did the website and www.enchanted-isle.com. We added new features and sections and it has now become full time living for me as well as my passion. My biggest addition was the What's Happenin' newsletter to the site. It was started by Peggy Nance and really began to take on a life of its own when Judy Leach became it's editor. She has been a great addition and wonderful friend. Unfortunately Judy passed away in September of 2006. She will be sorely missed. She was a good friend and confidante. Together we did the Ask Judy column, answering questions travelers have about the island. Now I answer what I can and query friends when necessary. What's Happenin' is back in full swing with Janie Chadwick at the helm. Her monthly columns are followed by visitors and islanders alike and make up some of our most-visited pages. I am only part time on the island now, but with the help of Janie and a many other friends, we keep everything up to date and current.
The support I get from my
advertisers, many of whom I've known forever, has been a Godsend and now that
the island is flourishing, I hope they are all making up for the lean years. I
would also like to thank my many contributors, who have given me pictures and
news to post thru the years. If you have a great story, we'd love to publish
that too. My biggest hope is that there is a trickle down throughout the entire community and that the entire island prospers from what I think has been the most sustainable industry to come to this island yet, Tourism. I like to think that the abundance would pour down through the entire population of the island, as people are willing to accept a prosperity consciousness for themselves. Thank you All for your great support over the years. I hope we can keep it going forever! In Peace. Namaste
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