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Organisers of the biennial Bermuda Pow Wow 2013 have hailed the weekend event at St David’s Cricket Club an overwhelming success. St David’s Islanders and Native Community chairwoman Nevis Filice said the event made history on a number of levels. Mo...

Heritage Matters A few weeks ago, a group of town-workers abandoned (by corporate policy) their computers, air-conditioned offices and the safety of the City of Hamilton to venture to the Casemate Barracks in the far, not to say too Wild, West of Be...

‘The Marion-Bermuda Race offers blue water racing in an approachable way to both veterans and newcomers alike and the Corinthian spirit encourages great camaraderie among the participants’. — Robert Mason, former Commodore, RHADC. Six hundred and for...

Heritage Matters “The guns were therefore originally used to announce the arrival of a ship … to residents living in the interior.” — Gunnery at Cape Town In days of old, before Swatch and other ‘personal time devices’, the general public relied on...

Staff from Works and Engineering have in recent weeks been working to restore the Unfinished Church, which suffered “substantial deterioration” due to weathering. Former St George’s Mayor Henry Hayward said: “It got so bad it was actually a danger to...

Archaeologist Ed Harris is to assist Bahamas officials in the preservation of the island group’s historic fortifications. The National Museum of Bermuda director is Bermuda’s foremost expert on forts has been invited to visit later this month. Bahami...

“24th May is the Queen’s Birthday: if we don’t get a holiday, we’ll all run away” — Schoolchildren’s ditty. Some years ago, the powers that be declared that the month of May should be designated as ‘Heritage Month’, with the major holiday date of th...

“Webbing: a nocturnal activity peculiar to a now extinct bipedal male species on the remote Bermudas” — Oxford Bermujan Dictionary. History happens quickly and in every second of every day, someone, or something, somewhere is weaving a strand into t...

Heritage Matters “ … they might say that the people of Hamilton live on farmers during the spring and on the Americans during the winter…”—Captain Nathaniel Vesey, 1899. Perhaps in the absence of a natural cauldron, people hereabout, or some at leas...

The relationship between people and the landscape is as inseparable as that of our connection with the air we must breathe if we are not to become, in short order, a part of the landscape. People exist, as the ancient saying irrevocably states, ‘betw...