Patricia's rolling portfolio of videos, infographics, photography and features

1. Patricia Borns
Multimedia Journalist
(904) 556-3147
patriciaborns@gmail.com

2. Video Domino Fever (2012) http://vimeo.com/31951311
Double-sixes, double-nines, in creole, Espanol and patois, Miami plays dominoes with passion.

3. Video Nixia’s Journey (2012) http://vimeo.com/38071849
Civil war drove Nixia Sagastume from El Salvador across the Guatemalan and Mexican borders into the
U.S. Her journey from field hand to boss is shared by a growing number of Hispanic and Latino agricultural
workers in Florida.

4. Video A Bull Called Gangster (2012) http://vimeo.com//37519062
"Just like a man's man," is how Homestead Rodeo hands describe their star 2012 bull riding contestant. He's
no ordinary athlete. Produced with Sam Thornton, Virginia Ansaldi and Jia Niu.

5. Video An American Road Warrior (2012) https://vimeo.com/41220990 His bumper sticker reads: “Vietnam? We
were winning when I left.” He and other vets of America’s most unpopular war find religion in their motorcycles
and brotherhood.

6. Web www.revolutionrevisited(dot)com
Architected, video edited and tested this team-built website for Pulitzer-winning photojournalist Kim Komenich.

7. Web Launching soon: The Audacity of Beauty
See the videos on Maggie Steber’s Vimeo page that will be part of the new site - https://vimeo.com/
user11443953/videos/sort:date
Lead architect, video editor and usability tester for this team project.

8. Infographic

9. Photography Redland Market dessert display (2012)
Multimedia Journalist

10. Photography Redland Market dessert display (2012)

11. Photography Redland Market espresso bar (2012)

12. Photography Crandon Beach merry-go-round (2012)

13. Photography Last days of Jimbo’s Place, Virginia Key (2012)

14. Photography Last Days of Jimbo’s Place, Virginia Key (2012)

15. Photography Boys soccer training on Crandon Beach (2012)

16. Photography Charlotte Jane Memorial Park Cemetery, West Coconut Grove (2012)

17. Photography Good Friday in West Coconut Grove (2012)

18. Photography Good Friday in West Coconut Grove (2012)

19. Photography West Grove Veterans Day (2012)

20. Photography West Grove Veterans Day (2012)

21. Photography West Grove Veterans Day (2012)

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The young British fencing coach had left her
friends on the beach to go hiking. It was her first time
in the Caribbean.
‘‘Hot weather doesn’t normally agree with me,’’ she
said, nor, she admitted, had hiking. ‘‘At home it’s an
older person’s sport.’’
We met in the East Coast village of Bathsheba,
where some 50 outdoors lovers had materialized like
a scene from ‘‘Field of Dreams.’’ We hiked for four
hours, fumbling through light woods and lianas
(woody tropical vines); crowding reverently into a
former slave chapel smothered in bush; laboring up
Melvin Hill to a fisheye-lens view of the green Chim-
borazo valley below; and over coral promontories
where Atlantic waves exploded in furies of spray.
Our guides, George Medford and Carl Fenty, re-
minded us that the wind washing over us travels
some 2,600 miles across the ocean to this coast from
The Gambia in West Africa and is some of the purest
air in the world.
‘‘This track was part of the Barbados Railway built
to transport sugar cane and tourists,’’ said Fenty. ‘‘It
went bust five times before ceasing operation under
its last owner, the Society for the Propagation of the
Gospel in Foreign Parts. A first-class seat with cham-
pagne cost 48 cents; when the train stalled, the third
class got out and pushed.’’
As we spilled down a heathered slope to the sea-
scape of Cattlewash, raw and romantic in the Byronic
sense, the fencer turned to me with shining eyes. ‘‘I’m
definitely coming back here,’’ she said.
While Barbados can be enjoyed without ever leav-
ing West Coast Highway 1, which is fringed with
beaches and hotels, a local passion for walking has
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Here at Bottom Bay, on Barbados’s Atlantic East
Coast, begins the 5-mile hike to Crane Beach.
PATRICIA BORNS FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE
Mom turns 80, kids play well together
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BOSTON SUNDAY GL OBE NOVEMBER 1, 2009 | BOSTON.COM/TRAVEL
BOSTON SUNDAY GL OBE DECEMBER 6, 2009 | BOSTON.C OM/TRAVEL
CARIBBEAN
FLORIDA
A homeland Revitalized
Bradenton
It’s our sea
to save, in
treasure
all its still
brims with living color
artistic flair
By Derrick Z. Jackson
By Beth D’Addono GLOBE STAFF
GLOBE CORRESPONDENT
This is a plunge into both
BRADENTON — Turn onto 12th Street
wonder and worry. I have snor-
West, and it’s clear that this isn’t your
keled and gone scuba diving in
average neighborhood. Instead of the
the waters of Vir-
usual bungalows, there is a riot of lime S T. J O H N gin Islands Nation-
green picket fencing, a mural that pairs
Frida Kahlo with an emaciated Christ al Park off and on for nearly 30
figure, and a giant cow statue painted years. I can string together my
blue. And that’s just within two blocks. encounters with the Caribbean’s
Welcome to Village of the Arts, a funky most colorful creatures like a
collection of more than 35 galleries, stu- National Geographic special. A
dios, cafes, and shops stretching between brilliant green male stoplight
9th Street and 16th Street West, and 9th parrotfish gives way to a red-
and 14th Street West in what was once a bellied female. A school of jacks
rough section just south of downtown whizzes by in mid-water as a
Bradenton, 50 miles south of Tampa on nurse shark slowly patrols the
Florida’s Gulf Coast. Formerly a place bottom.
known for crack houses and prostitutes, Southern stingrays and spot-
Village of the Arts started as a grass-roots ted eagle rays flap in aquatic
attempt to reclaim the neighborhood by a flight past coral ledges where
few brave artists in search of cheap real schools of orange-red and pink-
estate and a community. A decade later, ish-red blackbar soldierfish hang
what began as a social experiment has motionless, all pointed in the
become a reason for locals and visitors to same direction. Pancake-thin
spend time away from Bradenton’s sandy gray angelfish and black- and
beaches. yellow-spotted French angelfish
Bonni Brown was one of the first to swim through narrow openings
stake a claim. The former New York clin- while the glowing yellow-and-
ical social worker opened a bakery cafe in blue queen angelfish darts in
September 1999. ‘‘We bought this place ST. JOHN, Page M4
from a man arrested for shooting at crack-
heads. Got a great deal.’’ Today, the 100-
year-old building houses Bonni Bakes, a
friendly spot to have fresh mango lassi, a
curried chicken salad sandwich, and a
slice of red velvet cake. ‘‘We still get locals
who’ve lived here all their lives and say,
BRADENTON, Page M3
PATRICIA BORNS FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE
Tour operator Jack Shealy negotiates the ‘‘river of grass’’ on a skiff just large enough for two people and a cooler.
Far from cruise ships and hotels, tourists and their buzz,
a mile-wide respite lets visitors feel like locals
PATRICIA BORNS FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE
Honeymoon Beach on Druif Bay is the place where Water Islanders meet for movie nights, potluck cookouts, and bingo.
Atlantic Ocean
VANESSA RODGERS/BRADENTON AREA CVB
Ways to the Glades
B Y PAT R I C I A B O R N S | G L O B E C O R R E S P O N D E N T
CUBA PUERTO
Village Voices & Eclectic Art
RICO
Emporium is in Bradenton’s Village of
HAITI
Exploring the wetland by foot, Reality: Alligators are afraid of humans but may attack under
duress.
At the appointed hour, Captain Joe Mancino walked the dozen steps
the Arts, a reclaimed neighborhood. airboat, canoe, and more, So began the unraveling of my misconceptions about
from his bar stool at Tickles Dockside Pub to the ferry at D dock, ushering DOMINICAN
REPUBLIC
Detail
dispelling myths along the way the Florida Everglades, starting with what and where they
aboard workmen, schoolchildren, grocery-toting moms, and me. Within Caribbean Sea are.
US VIRGIN ISLANDS By Patricia Borns ‘‘It’s about water,’’ said Mark Kraus of the Everglades
minutes, St. Thomas’s clamoring harbor of leviathan VENEZUELA
WAT E R I S L A N D
INSIDE
GLOBE CORRESPONDENT
cruise ships receded, and we had entered the sanctuary Restoration Foundation. ‘‘The Everglades are wetlands
Cinnamon EVERGLADES CITY — As we slogged waist-deep into a that historically flowed from the Kissimmee River near
of Water Island, the smallest of the four main US Virgin Islands. The after- Bay soup of black water, the Cypress dome closed in, a wet Orlando into Florida Bay.’’ Although agriculture and de-
noon sea twinkled like diamonds. Palm trees waved from shore. Soon
SUNNY ISLES SHEDS garden of epiphytes and silvered tree trunks so magical, I velopment have shrunk them, the Glades are still gigantic:
friends were lifting each others’ provisions into waiting golf carts, and I
AMALIE MORE THANCoral NORTH
CRUZ C
ITS
Bay almost forgot the cottonmouth water moccasins lurking ‘‘Everglades National Park is only a fraction. Biscayne
was offered a ride up the steep hillside to Virgin Islands Campground. BA
BAY
BAY
WATER
ISLAND MIAMI BEACH MONIKER out of sight. National Park, Big Cypress National Preserve, Fakahatch-
‘‘Water Island is like small-town America was 50 years ago,’’ said Manci-
ST. THOMAS PAGE M2
ST. JOHN ‘‘It’s not dangerous?’’ a young Quebecer said as an alli- ee Strand State Preserve, and Corkscrew Swamp Sanctu-
no. ‘‘Everyone helps each other here.’’ 40 miles gator 30 feet away slithered closer beneath the water to
(Not to scale) ary are also the Everglades, preserved under different
Although four miles from St. Thomas, little Water Island (2 miles long Caribbean Sea ST. AUGUSTINE
Buck Island check us out. agencies and names,’’ Kraus said.
by a mile at its widest) truly is a world apart. Its community of 160 consists CAPITALIZES ON ‘‘Yes, it is,’’ said Graham Mitchell, our guide. ‘‘But less With over 3 million acres, how do travelers take it in?
mainly of stateside expats all busily engaged in the tropical adventure of a ITS HISTORIC STATUS dangerous than driving a car.’’ Most see the Glades on high-speed ‘‘CSI: Miami’’-style
lifetime. Mancino moved here three years ago from Long Island and start- PAGE M4 N E D
CHRISTIANSTED Myth: Alligators hunt humans as food.
PHOTOS BY DERRICK Z. JACKSON/
GLOBE STAFF
EVERGLADES, Page M4
ed the ferry business. Heath Nowak arrived from Louisiana just a month FREDERIKSTED
ago with his family to start a new job. A long cast of characters has preced- 4 MILES Top down: a gray angelfish,
queen angelfish, hawksbill
ed them: Pirates once drew water from the ponds ST. THOMAS, Page M2 ST. CROIX
JAMES ABUNDIS/GLOBE STAFF turtle, and yellow goatfish.