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Dear Barbados Free Press,
I hope you can help me with this request, as I don’t really know where to start…
My Dad is the handsome young chap (then !) on the front of your newspaper (January 5, 1967)
I would love to get a better quality copy of the photocopy I have and get it framed for Fathers Day this year…
Do you have the original version please, its very poor quality the version I have… He would be totally thrilled, he tells us stories about his crossing and how the Bajan folk swam out and greeted their boat in Bridgetown and threw bottles of rum on the deck etc it was quite a feat in those days with no navigation tools to speak of etc
If you can please let me know either way that would be lovely.
Thank you very much!
Samantha Grimsteed
BFP Editor says: Hello Samantha! Wonderful story but you have the wrong newspaper. Try the Barbados Advocate: letters@barbadosadvocate.com
Barbados Free Press 
The Barbados Public Library will probably have the edition on Microfilm from which you can get a print.
Maybe their microfilm reader can print to a pdf but then again … maybe not.
Try this link for contact info.
http://www.funbarbados.com/OurIsland/barbados_library_service.CFM