It was a privilege to live in this beautiful country, even for a short time. You can be a tourist, no problem. But only because of my wife Vivien’s international reputation as a fashion designer and an expert in manufacture we were able to get a resident visa (Sri Lanka does a lot of garment manufacture for the rest of the world).
Known by many names over the centuries: Taprobane, The Emerald Isle, Ceylon, and Serendib (which gave us the word “serendipity” for good luck and happy chance) or even just plain “Paradise”, this ocean island, though troubled, was a very special place to live and work.
Legend has is that King Solomon’s Mines were here and there may just be some truth in that: when it rains heavily, gems spill out in the mud in certain places, the name Ratnapura means “city of the gems”. The whole island, frankly, is a jewel and I love it.
I started my email newsletter there and called it “Letter From Serendipity”, after the island country. I have kept up the tradition since.
I found your web site while looking for alternative medicine and blood sugar control. However, I just thought
I would share something I am working on in my small town of Lake Geneva Wisconsin. I have been President
of a local history museum and am working on an exhibit called Ceylon Court. The story is the people of Sir Lanka
carved many beautiful pieces of wood for a tea house that would be on exhibit at the World’s Fair in 1893 in
Chicago. After the Fair was over, people by the name of Chandler bought the tea house and had it taken apart a
and put on 26 railroad cars and brought to Lake Geneva. It was put together with wooden pegs, so it was put
back together on Chandler’s property on the lake shore of our town. Over the years, next the Mitchell’s owned
it and then the Maytags (washing machine co) When it could not be sold, it was burned down, but some of the
artifacts were saved and stored in a barn for over 50 years. Now we have the wood columns and some other
saved pieces that will make up the exhibit. I have located the Chandler’s grandson who has given me photos.
I have been told Queen Victoria ordered the tea house built to promote tea, which was not popular in the US
at that time. It has been interesting doing the research on Sir Lanka and now I have learned a little more about
it from you. If you ever come to Lake Geneva, please stop at the Geneva Lake Museum and see what we have
done with the artifacts we were given. We are close to Chicago and Milwaukee and Madison Wisconsin.
Best of health to you and your lovely wife.
Verne Magee
Thank you Verne, I LOVE this comment!
Chances are you will also enjoy this page: http://www.alternative-doctor.com/specials/SLacupuncture.htm
K
Great to see that you are as busy in as many different areas as before. I am still of the Costa del Sol.
I interviewed you for an article and on radio here on the Costa over 10 years go.
I am presently talking to another radio station so I was checking if you are still available for interviews. Where do you reside?
Congratulations on your marriage.
Warm Wishes
Rosalind
Scott I was trained as a chemist and am 67 years old. I read your book To Fly Without Wings. I could not put it down. Like you I have searched for years for the truth of my existence and am no longer one of the sleep walkers. It is easy to see you have been looking for a long time. Your book has given me very interesting insights that I have been zeroing in on for some time. In the back of the book in appendix notes you give a web site http://www.scott-mumby.com/tunnels which I could not get to load up. Is it still up and running. Do you have more information along similar lines that you would share with a fellow seeker? I have been receiving your emails for some time.
Tunnels of Time is down for the immediate forseeable future Coy.
But do be sure to sign on at: http://www.FoodForTheMindAndFireForTheSoul.com
Also, watch out for my topic of Kreissenetics, which is being launched right now.
K