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Atlantic Phoenix No 224, one of the oldest masonic lodges in Bermuda on the Grand Registry of England, has a new Worshipful Master. He is Worshipful Brother (W Bro) Zachary J Sagurs, who was installed with all the combined solemnity and spectacle ass...

The Cathedral of Most Holy Trinity Church in Hamilton was packed to overflowing two Sundays ago as hundreds braved the elements, even standing outside in the rain, to pay last respects to Calvin Calsworth Dilton Crockwell. Many were fuly regaled memb...

When members of Alexandrina Lodge, No. 1026 of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows gathered at their Court Street, Hamilton Lodge Sunday for their Annual Peter Odgen Day Celebrations and to mark the lodge’s 160th anniversary, their first order was ...

This is the time of the year when two significant events tug at my heritage strings for recognition. The first leading up to Heritage Month which the country is currently observing, is the annual Installation of Officers of the Hamilton District of t...

This is a follow-up on the feature we did in this Notebook column of the heart-rending story of Scottish born Janet Steed Kerr stumbling on the fact that her great grandfather was an adventurous young black Bermudian seafarer. He was Charles William ...

A remarkably happy ‘connect’ took place in Edinburgh, Scotland recently when Beldwin Smith, a prominent leader in the Masonic craft both in Bermuda and internationally, met for the first time a cousin he never knew existed. He was Wor. Bro. John Hard...

Somerset, or Sandys, where I was born and bred more than 8.5 decades ago, was once regarded by the rest of Bermuda (so I’ve been told) as the country’s most refined, somewhat aristocratic and certainly progressive of Bermuda’s nine parishes. But it s...

A new bond has been forged between Freemasons in Bermuda and Prince Hall Free Masons under the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Massachusetts. It stems from the visit of some thirty Prince Hall Masons and their Ladies to Hannibal Lodge No 224, St George’s ...

Atlantic Phoenix Lodge No.224 on the Grand Registry of England, with its history rooted in the 1797, has a new Worshipful Master. He is Wor Brother David A. Le’Strange, seen centre above flanked by the brethren who will “keep him covered” for the nex...