This is Ena, a spunky widow plowing her way through her seventies. My first week on Andros we did the electrical work in her home, giving her lights and electricity for the first time in her life. She is an expert in cooking "bush medicine," an art she learned as a girl from her grandmother. Andros' CrabFest was the coming weekend and several people coming into town had placed orders with her for medicine. While the medicine will "make anyone feel strong and powerful," she said its primary use was as a fertility aid. She said: "Many children come into the world because of Ena, you know, but only did one of them ever get named after me."
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