One year ago, today the first weekly edition of Ibiza History Culture was published online, and I am very happy to write that we shall, hopefully, go on to produce many, many more interesting weekly issues over the years to come.

I decided to begin this weekly publication, simply because, I have a great passion for this wonderful island, and I was sick and tired of hearing and reading mostly negatives about Ibiza. Therefore, I thought it was about time that somebody started to put together some positive news and attractive features on our unique island of Ibiza.

Emily Kaufman and I produced our initial weekly edition together on Saturday 3rd March 2001. Emily has done wonders over the first year to write and create so many interesting articles week after week after week on this attention-grabbing topic on the History of Ibiza. Not only does Emily research and write the fact for her weekly history column but she also writes an accurate interview on the remarkable people of the island who she has spoken with over the past twelve-month period.

Sinclair Newton, our humorous Sober Life columnist was the next to join the cause with his first article Pig published Saturday 21st April 2001. My personal favourite Sober Life article was Cake published Saturday 24th November 2001 in which Sinclair started making a cake and within a few lines he ended up going to war.

José P Ribas made his debut and wrote his first Island Ecology column Proem published Saturday 23rd June 2001. During his period of with Ibiza History Culture José has written out of the ordinary articles on the fascinating ecology of the island of Ibiza. Furthermore, José has contributed with our fortnightly series Artists on Ibiza which with today's feature is our tenth article on this worthy subject.

Louise Wright was the next who made her first appearance by writing her first Local News article published Saturday 14th July 2001. Louise is currently on an enforced sabbatical from Ibiza History Culture. Louise is studying very hard to pass examinations that if successful will reward her with an automatic entrance to University. Nonetheless, we expect Louise to be back amongst us writing her informative Local News column sometime later this summer when all her exams are finished.

Kirk W Huffman our anthropologist wizard made his introduction with writing his first extraordinary An Anthropological View column Water and Water and Water published  Saturday 18th August 2001. Kirk is a definite constant mind of information that really does cover to the full all aspects of the subject this intellect has chosen to write about.

Then there is our webmaster, Antonio Ribas Bamberger, without whom we could not produce this weekly product because he is the genius who constantly works behind the scenes to put everything perfectly together and to send out the weekly publication to our subscribers each Saturday.

I would like to give our sincere thanks to all those folk out there who read our online weekly journal and to those people who have subscribed to receive our weekly publication free of charge each Saturday.

We appreciate the written enquires people send in asking about the many intriguing happenings that take place throughout the year here on the island of Ibiza.

Finally, we would be grateful for any encouraging suggestions on how you may think we can improve our weekly publication. Therefore, please feel free to write and let us know about any of your ideas that could possibly be of benefit to Ibiza History Culture.

Muchismas gracias

Gary Hardy

garyhardy@ibizahistoryculture.com