Whereas Iola (Honore) Joseph 1913-2006] was a fluent speaker of Creole French, she used the language only among her own siblings and mother (a widow) in the rural, ancestral, Honore home, and not at all in the urban 'hurly-burly' of the Joseph family effort for economic survival. Consequently, The Author, the youngest daughter born to Iola in St. George's, and in her 40th year of life, learned very little of the Creole French. The Author, nostalgic for the loss of the language, subsequently learned the language more fully, and established as a memorial to Iola, her mother, a philanthropic...