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Credit where it’s due

24th February, 2014 Dear Mr. Editor, We were all delighted to learn of the Davidson family’s generous donation of a valuable Edward James watercolour to the Bermuda National Museum and to read Dr. Edward Harris’ glowing acknowledgment of the gift in ...
Feb 25, 2014
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The light of our lives

‘Mr Gordon devoted himself principally to the construction and management of lighthouses, especially in the colonies — “Grace’s Guide: British Industrial History” The late Michael Dolding of the Department of Marine & Ports Services was a profession...
Feb 15, 2014
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Island archaeologist refuses to comment on removal of graves

The director of the National Museum of Bermuda has refused to answer questions about the Ombudsman’s report on the desecration of historic tombstones at Tucker’s Point — but has said he’ll work to “resolve” the matter. Edward Harris was named in Arle...
Feb 06, 2014
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Senator points to PLP leader in Tucker’s Town graves row

Government Senator Nalton Brangman has described Opposition leader Marc Bean as the “real culprit” for the desecration of historic tombstones at Tucker’s Point. Mr Bean was Environment Minister during 2012 when Ombudsman Arlene Brock recommended that...
Feb 04, 2014
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A whale of a picture

When he rises up, the mighty are terrified; they retreat before his thrashing. — Job 41:25 In the spring of the first year of the Second World War, three submarine-like shapes were sighted some 15 miles to the southwest of Bermuda, not, one hastens ...
Feb 01, 2014
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A Christmas present for generations

It is a testament to Allen that, although he was greeted with scorn upon his arrival in pro-Confederate Bermuda in 1861, he became a beloved figure in the postwar years and was genuinely mourned by Bermudians when he died on Christmas Eve 1888. — Gl...
Dec 21, 2013
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To the ocean borne

“All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.” — F Scott Fitzgerald Many Bermudians spend the summer diving off wharves, bridges and rocks, breasting the waves on the South Shore, or floating off the stern of a boat of an afterno...
Nov 30, 2013
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Negotiations for a sail

One of the most important classes of seamen in Bermuda until the Age of Steam revolutionised the ‘sailing’ technology of ships was the pilot cadre. These were men, mostly from the west and east ends of Bermuda, who ventured to sea in ‘pilot gigs’, sm...
Nov 02, 2013
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"The grand bandstand of Victoria Park"

‘In 1889, the Corporation completed the erections of a handsome galvanised cast iron BAND STAND made to their order by the Sun Foundry, Glasgow’ — Bermuda Almanack 1893 Given its size, the City of Hamilton could not afford the luxury of a ‘central p...
Oct 19, 2013
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"Surgeon Williamson dissects Bermuda"

‘As yet I have no where abroad seen such peculiar and beautiful scenery’ — James Williamson, 1929 By Dr Edward Harris Communication is key to human life, not to say that it is not to the birds and bees (what is left of both), but that humans develop...
Oct 05, 2013
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"Walk the Trail, by land and sea"

‘An Island as beautiful as Bermuda cries out to be explored; there is no finer way to do this than to travel, in your own time, along the right of way which once carried the Bermuda Railway’ — Colin A Pomeroy, 1993 Aside from a wonderful article on ...
Sep 21, 2013
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