This first issue of Blarg Papers opens where Blarg itself does, in the Caribbean. The capstone adapted here was researched and written across Trinity College Dublin and field study in Dominica. It tracks a single island through four overlapping centuries of contact, conquest, plantation economics, and recovery, and reads the cultural landscape as the record of those centuries rather than the prose of any one of them. I chose Dominica because the island’s surface retains history without much help from us. Fort Shirley still sits on the Cabrits. La Soye is still being read, sherd by sherd, by archaeologists from across the world. The Kalinago Territory is still there. The Sugar Age is gone, mostly, but not entirely. The conclusion this paper aims to reach is that the process of preservation is itself also an act of resilience.