Sri Lanka

Three magnets were sent to Sri Lanka by Jane, a woman who's daughter married the nephew of the recipients. They are part of a family that left the  north and moved to Colombo for better opportunities, as educated people from the area tended to do. This was in the 1930s and I believe the country was called Ceylon at the time. The family went back north for a few years when Colombo was bombed by Japan in 1939. They returned and settled in a large house where there now stands an apartment building. Though several of the eight children in the family grew up and migrated to different countries, two of the sisters live in that apartment building and they each were given magnets. Another sister who still lives in Colombo has the third magnet and replied as follows:

"Recieved your magnet from El- it now takes pride of place on our frig. your's is an unusual and original idea  to link all countries via magnets. I'ts a " magnetic " idea and with the magnets we'll be magnetically linked. I think of magnet therapy and all the other amazing things magnets can do.

 

  The magnetic pull of Sri Lanka (then Ceylon)  has attracted visitors from China, Arabia, Italy and America. Even D.H. Lawrence wrote a poem about Kandy perahera (temple processsion). No wonder then that Sri Lanka draws you magnetically  ! !

 

  Hope the pull of Castlereagh, St Clairs and Hakgala gardens  draws you here magnetically.

 

Good luck to your project and hope you get here again."

 

Following are some photos of Colombo sent by their brother, father of the young man who is blissfully wed to Jane's daughter: 

 

This is the Colombo photo that attracts all the tourists!



A Colombo street scene.



The high school  they attended.