Recent content by Diane Awen

I actually haven't had a chance yet in this life to visit the islands but that is definitely on my bucket list. When I was a child I had this odd memory of having been in a tropical environment with lots of colorful birds in the trees but I couldn't remember exactly when or where that had...

He was born on Nevis on January 11, 1757 (not 1755 and not on St. Eustatius as some have speculated). I had been married to John Lavien years before who abused me so bad that I had no choice but to leave him (long and sad story short). I met James Hamilton on St. Kitts and we had several...

I was very interested in Alexander Hamilton and was researching him. I was told that I was the reincarnation of his mother, Rachael Faucette Lavien. At first I was skeptical about this. I was asked to write a book about the life of Alexander Hamilton and, like many before me, started with...