written by Sibyl Kempson

"A gravel pathway beside a verdant, knowing swampe. Heaven-white egrets loome in elegant defiance on the finagling, twisted branches of innumerable nefarious mangrove trees, half hidden among vines that cling wantonly to whatever their creeping wooden fingers can finde. The pathway is shrouded from the daylight that blazes on the crashing beache nearby. The confessions of the nightpeepers will have to waite until the more compleate cover of night. "

Three times a widow, Miss Anne May Patterson married her first husband, John Rose Palmer - grandnephew of John Palmer who built Rose Hall - in 1820. Although Anne was half English and half Irish, legende has it that she was raised in Haiti where she mastered the dark art of voodoo. The Wytche of Problymm Plantation spins the luride tale of her jealous entanglement with Miss Bertha Mason and Edward Rochester, of Jane Eyre fame.