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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...

One day, in the distant year of 2612, Bermuda will celebrate its first millennium, for in this present year of 2013, it is but four centuries and nine months into that first 1,000 years. Such a year six hundred years hence has the ring of science fic...

If you’ve been looking for a particular out-of-print book to fill a hole in your Bermuda collection, this might be your chance. Local bibliophile Peggy Burns is holding The Heritage Month Bookathon (A Race Towards Knowledge) in hopes of raising money...

“It is said that Madam de Graaff was a horsewoman, and that in order to keep her habit hanging correctly it was weighted with Golden Coins.” — Hereward T Watlington, 1979. Two centuries after they participated, to great profit, in an early form of ‘...

‘Bermuda’s maritime economy wedded her people to sustained intercourse with a wider Atlantic world and dispelled the relative isolation characteristic of the island’s company-period history’ — Michael Jarvis 2002 These days, Bermuda is sailing in dif...

‘A derelict is a vessel abandoned at sea. Derelicts that survived more than a few days at sea were usually wooden sailing vessels’ Dr Philip L Richardson, 1985 Lest you jump to the conclusion that this is a political essay, I hasten to add that there...

We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now. — Martin Luther King Jr Next to pilot boats in this watery realm of the Bermudas, tugboats are one of the icons of the maritime world in local channels and harbours. Perhaps mo...

From the trees on the island, they constructed two small pinnaces of cedar, and loaded them with abundant supplies of salt pork, live turtles, salted birds and fish, which were part of the island’s natural produce. Governor Nathaniel Butler, about 1...

Dr Edward Harris Why should Bermuda’s judiciary and legal profession not celebrate the opening of the legal year as we did traditionally for many years and our Commonwealth counterparts, big and small, continued to do so today.— Chief Justice Ian K...

Heritage Matters The other oddity is also an inscription, a Biblical text of 20 words cut into the sandstone flanking the road on the west side near the summit of Scaur Hill.— Terry Tucker, The Bermudian, 1961 Historians sometimes present an incomp...

HERITAGE MATTERS by Dr. Edward Harris Heritage and culture, when combined with leisure and tourism may be considered one of the most significant and fastest growing components of this tourism phenomena in the world.— The Journal of Tourism Studies ...