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Sugar mill ruins at Playa Grande
Other architectural ruins pop up here and there around the island—most notably the
sugar mill at Playa Grande—to remind us, in Vieques' understated, reluctant way, that
many came before us, and that their lives were hardly the proverbial “day at the beach” so
many of us have enjoyed there since.
Speaking of those who came before us—the skeleton of a man dating back some four
thousand years was found in the Puerto Ferro area of Vieques in the 1990s. Nobody knows
how this young fellow got to the island or what he was doing there.
Personally, I like to imagine him junketing over for an afternoon of snorkeling.
Even Prehistoric Man deserved to have a little fun.
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