Answers to Go with Susan Smith

Q. What exactly is the “Spanish Main”?

A. This patron had checked out our OverDrive eBook edition of Ron Chernow’s excellent biography of Alexander Hamilton when he saw that our copy of the book was checked out. He used his San Marcos Public Library card so there was no charge.

Chernow’s book begins with Hamilton’s birth on the Caribbean island of Nevis and childhood on St. Croix. This is where our reader came upon a reference to the Spanish Main.