Neville watches island children arrive for school during his Barbados boyhood
Date (happened)
between 1911 and September 1922
unresolved
before 1959
bound · probable
Reasoning
Neville recalls what he habitually saw 'when I was a boy' in Barbados; the childhood observations predate the lecture.
between 1911 and September 1922
estimated · possible
Why
M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 002)
Reasoning
Passage 529174: 'when I was a boy there I would see these children arriving from the other islands at the beginning of the school year'. He grew up in Barbados until September 1922 (residence 20457); school age from about six gives 1911 onward, the catalogue reading boyhood as 1910-1920.
Told / reported
6 October 1959
conclusion · probable
Why
dc1-agreement-20261004, pm-actor-551 (PM 8702)
Reasoning
1 claim, no conflict: 1959-10-06 (node:1062).
6 October 1959
estimated · probable
Why
Unresolved sibling conflict on the lecture (1968-10-13, catalog #477, unreviewed) is flagged here, not adjudicated -- this claim only asserts that 1959-10-06 is currently the better-witnessed of the two.
Reasoning
This is when Neville told the Barbados-schoolchildren memory, i.e. the lecture's own delivery; 1959-10-06 is corroborated twice (an independent catalogue entry plus the transcript's own chrome dateline), which is the strongest support on this node, but the same node still carries a second, unreviewed certain legacy claim of 1968-10-13 that no pass has yet adjudicated, so the telling is recorded at probable rather than certain pending that resolution.
1 tellings, oldest first. A date in brackets shows how it is known; "circa", "after" and "possible" dates are rough.
| Date |
Lecture or book |
Telling |
Passage |
| 1959-10-06 [exact/certain/final] |
That Which Already Has Been |
I send my child to school to prepare her for living in the world, not to punish her, but to do it I must send her out. In Barbados we have a good school system, though not beyond high school, and when I was a boy there I would see these children arriving from the other islands at the beginning of the school year with their new clothes and their new books. They thought it was exciting, not knowing what it was all about. But then the time came for the parents to kiss them goodbye and leave them in this strange place, and many a child cried himself to sleep not just for a night but for the whole… |
529174 |