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Growing up in the 1950s Joan Friedman did everything with her twin. They wore matching outfits, had alliterative names — Joan and Jane, and were always the life of the party. “Twins were unusual in the 1950s,” the psychotherapist said. “We got a l...

There’s nothing fun about being called a geriatric. Golden-ager and senior citizen aren’t much better. Bill Storie and Robin Trimingham realised that when they started a retirement blog in 2013. “Maybe in some circumstances those words have a positi...

For 20 years Florence Dearing was a faithful Meals on Wheels volunteer. Then she fell and broke her pelvis. “I just turned on a mat and went down,” said the 88-year-old. Recovery took months and suddenly it was her in need of assistance. “Meals on ...

Colin Duerden has always been fascinated by crime. As a child he loved his father Floyd “Happy” Duerden’s stories of policing Bermuda in the 1940s and 1950s. He thought of becoming a police officer himself, at one point, but his father said “no way!”...

Rosemarie Kley has her Bermuda “rituals”. She wears a T-shirt purchased the trip before on every flight to the island. And she’s a regular at Coco Reef Resort, where she always stays in the same room. The New Jersey resident has been to the island 38...

The ink was barely dry on their marriage certificate when Charles and Ann Mulraine moved to Bermuda. It was 1962. They were fresh out of university and ready to start new lives together. The couple spent three idyllic years here before returning to ...

Te-Che’ Minors saw Up With People on stage and was immediately hooked. The performances, the backstage work and the organisation’s community spirit were all hugely appealing to the 17-year-old. In a matter of weeks she had signed up and been accepted...

Joe Bawduniak started dreaming about Bermuda the moment he saw the ad in Time. The magazine regularly carried testimonials from frequent visitors here in the 1970s. He resolved to find out if the island lived up to the hype. “It was everything I expe...

Esme Williams’s life was going great until tragedy struck. She’d just started a new job and was loving every minute. And then she lost her eyesight. A rare disease struck one eye, and then the other, taking away most of her vision. The 72-year-old ha...

Jim Mueller’s reason for taking an Irish dance class wasn’t very deep, he wanted to meet girls. His plan worked better than he’d hoped. Not only did he meet his future wife, Lauren Crowe-Mueller, he fell in love with the dance itself. “I was in my e...