On June 25, 2009, The Bahamas Historical Society presents a lecture on the history of Sweetings Cay, Bahamas, by Capt. Scott Sherouse, Ph.D.

Dr. Sherouse has taught cultural anthropology, world history, and sociology at Florida International University and Miami Dade College. He is also a captain in the United States Merchant Marines and has been traversing the Bahamas for several decades. Sherouse’s forthcoming book, The Land of Milk and Honey: Symbolic Acts and Social Action in The Bahamas, looks at the colony’s evocative and emotive events of the mid-twentieth century, events leading towards independence. Scott has lived on Andros Island and New Providence and visited nearly every island, cay, and rock of the commonwealth. He took an interest in the history of Sweetings Cay upon his first visit in 1995 and has interviewed nearly all of the elderly folks there while also looking at the scant archival and written record; it has made for a very interesting study