A Bunch of the Usual Suspects

A bunch of the usual suspects, 1979

This photograph was taken by John Paul Jacques in the ruins of a pre-umbrella Castello. Maggie Martin, who passed away this summer near her home in Thailand, is in the centre. The happy crowd surrounding her includes the following people: Simone (Maggie’s daughter); Christina Kingsmill; Tayu (Barbara Lapcek’s daughter); Evelyn (Nicky and Robert Hale’s daughter); Vassily; Lena Cunliffe and her daughters Cathy and Caroline; Helle (Rie and Robert Goldman’s daughter); Thor (Alison Gold’s son); Joel (Thor’s friend); Kathy (Johanne Goldman’s friend); Amanda Divine and her daughter Fern. The donkey’s name was Oswald. The Goldman family borrowed him from Lilly Mack that summer—probably 1979. Maggie and Christina are remembered with much love by many people.

Submitted by Helle Goldman.

David Fagan

David Fagan is CEO, president, managing director, author, publisher, and chief bottlewasher of DavidFagan.org. On his first visit to Hydra back in 1983, David decided that owning a bar in this exotic location was an ideal way not to spend the rest of his life in the fast-lane of corporate advertising and journalism. It was an idea spawned by the Honorable Bill Cunliffe of Bill’s Bar, renowned wateringhole for anyone who knew this part of the world at the time. He and a couple of old-timers, Anthony Kingsmill and Leonard Bernstein, planted the seed: Come!