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This summer, the Marine Heritage section of the Department of Conservation Services will work to rescue artifacts from the shipwreck of the blockade runner, the Marie Celeste. Recent storms have exposed more of the ship’s bow, revealing its contents ...

So brazen were some of the ‘salvors’ that Justice Burrows followed them many miles to Tucker’s Town and, single-handed, retrieved a good share of the money and personal effects [stolen from shipwrecked persons]. H.C. Wilkinson, Bermuda from Sail to ...

Dr. Edward Cecil Harris, MBE, PhD, has done it again. He has launched the third volume of Heritage Matters, his essays on Bermuda history originally published in the Mid-Ocean News, and now in The Royal Gazette’s Saturday Weekender, At a book launc...

In the wonderful book about the ecology of the world, “The Song of the Dodo”, by David Quammen, the theory about “islands”, whether oceanic, or locked within an area of land, as progenitors of evolutionary change is much expounded, often to sad effec...

‘To the Editor of The Colonist Dear Sir As you have asked me to give you some idea of the knocking about in my boyhood days and the things I saw, then I will do my best but of course I can't give days and dates Anyway as a boy I had no use for the sh...

The Rev. Richard Buck was the first minister who performed the service of the Church of England in Bermuda, having been chaplain to the expedition of Sir Thomas Gates and Sir George Somers and a sharer of all their hardships in 1609. The Bermuda Pock...

As the late Dr. A.C.H. Hallett, known affectionately to all as ‘Archie', noted in the opening pages of his magisterial work on the churches of Bermuda from 1612 to 1826, the original settlers did not alight on these shores intent on worship of God, b...

'The very unsatisfactory condition of the Government House at Mount Langton is a source of regret as well as anxiety; it may well be doubted if the expenditure of large sums of money annually for improvements and repairs of an old house is, in practi...

As Dame Jennifer Smith, former Premier of Bermuda, alluded to in her remarks for the 25th anniversary of the Masterworks Foundation, the arts are central to human life and through the practice of all forms of artistry, people try to achieve a great m...

Waves rise as mountains And rise to the heavens, And with horror drops glances Into instantly dug abysses A disturbing force like passion, does not know of a centre point, Now to the sky, now into the precipice throws A boat without an oar or r...

‘Our department was called the Uncommon Language Department and was in the Adams Room of the Princess Hotel. And of course, the mailbags were distributed and we had to memorise black lists of any trade that was going on between the Axis and the Ameri...

This story first appeared in Island Notebook in The Mid-Ocean News in 2001: We are not sure if there is one word yet that has been coined to adequatelydescribe an old Berkeley Institute student called Eddie Blue Lightbourne who hailed from Middleto...