Dear Cain's, Corlett's, Manx descendants, all Postees, Frances Coakley and Liz, and Isle of Mann Citizens,

Wishing you many wonderful days of this new year and peace and happiness. Looking so forward to seeing many when we arrive in the Spring.

I hope the Manx people realize what a precious gift you have of living on a most historical and breathtaking Ilse. The Jewel indeed has been found out and changes I am sure will be forth coming. The Isle through Jon Wornham eyes I have been looking and the photography is so real to life that I feel like I have been to the Isle for a lovely day trip. I pray the Isle will always have it's wonderful beauty and Manx tradtions and the Old ways, Oh so much is destroyed when you become a tourist destination, like Hawaii, being on that Isle for four years, it changed over night, from paradise to a concrete jungle , high rises and apartments and houses, all the beauty was almost destroyed until the Hawaiian people put the brakes on the destruction.

The Isle of Mann is now found out, many will visit it's shores , once something of beauty is discovered, it only goes that human nature wants a part of that beauty to have and to hold. I pray it shall not be exploited and I pray the unspoilt lands and peolple and their lovely ways of life and farming shall not falter under progress. Preservation, must be the whole resource. Progress is wonderful, but if not used properly it can destroy. I shall be so happy when I and my husband arrive, we look so forward to meeting so many of the Isle residents, I want to meet the farmers especially; for that is where my Cain and Corlett's were , earth people, who loved the life giving soil and where nature ruled. I shall close now. I cannot wait to see my ancestral homeland and smell the air and walk where my Manx families walked and loved and reared their children. America has lost so much of it's wonderful land to progress and traditions are gone forever, don't allow that to happen to your Jewel in the sea.

Happy New Year and Blessings,

Mrs. Rosa