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Colin Young is one of the few remaining survivors of a deadly fire at Mount Allison University eighty years ago. Four students died, countless others were injured throwing themselves from upper level windows to escape the blaze. “It was the early hou...

For their first wedding anniversary Tony and Patricia Correia decided to splurge on dinner and a movie. The newlyweds took a taxi into Hamilton instead of pedalling; at the Jungle Room, a popular spot on Queen Street, they watched a live band. “They ...

At 77 Sally Godet is still at work, bottling and selling jams. She reckons she has produced between 50,000 and 60,000 jars of Sallie’s Bermuda Preserves since she started the company in the 1990s. She is always amused when people remark that it must ...

Stephen Johnson moved to Bermuda in 2017 and was unexpectedly put to work. Having heard he was a history buff, Jon Beard, the deputy head at Saltus Grammar School, asked that he document its history. Dr Johnson, a retired educator whose wife Deryn L...

As a young police officer in England, George Hammond had his pick of British colonies to apply for work. He chose Bermuda on a whim, although he didn’t really know where it was. “That was the one that stuck out for me,” the 85-year-old said. “I took ...

Sue Behrle is one of Bermuda’s biggest fans. She has visited more than 50 times in three decades, and has ‘Going to Bermuda’ tattooed on her wrist. She uses the same phrase as her e-mail username. “I first came in the 1990s,” the 66-year-old, Landsdo...

George and Dorothy Trott have been happily married for 43 years, but theirs is by no means a story of love at first sight. They first met at the Bermuda Telephone Company back in the early 1970s. Mrs Trott, originally from Clarendon, Jamaica, was wo...

Some adult poets struggle for years to see their work in print, but Eva Worsick is a published poet at 10. Work by the St George’s Preparatory School student appeared in the latest editions of children’s literary magazines, Stone Soup and Magic Drago...

Centuries-old windows in St George’s are getting a new lease on life thanks to the skilled attention of Robert Powell. The 66-year-old has spent the past two months fixing the 14 windows at St Peter’s Church rectory. The building, which sits behind t...

When Barbara Petty went to Mount Saint Agnes Academy she so admired the nuns who taught at that time, she wanted to be one herself. “I don’t think I was even 16 when I told my parents,” the 82 year old remembered. “I think a lot of girls my age want...