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Extract from the Charlestown Travel Guides:
Nevis' small capital, captivating
CHARLESTOWN
, boasts an impeccable assemblage of gingerbread-trimmed
skirt-and-blouse houses
, in keeping with residents' resolutely old-fashioned attitudes. These traditional attitudes can also be seen in the 1825
courthouse
on a day that someone's being tried for swearing in public; you'll see the cusser in question sitting in a draconian crib-like prisoner's box. The upstairs
library
, with its heavy-set ceiling braced by mahogany gunwales, is equally devoid of modernity. Indeed, it seems the only thing that's changed about Charlestown in its nea...
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