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Lucille Woolridge wouldn’t go to the grocery store without a hat on her head. The 86-year-old is mad about hats and has a collection of more than 100, many of them made by her own hand out of natural materials. “The first hat I made was when I was 1...

When reggae artist Giles “Sir Dudley” Spurling wrote his new song Born Bermudian, he wanted to celebrate his culture. The first words out of his mouth when he started composing were: “Mi a born Bermudian...” And while he received positive feedback to...

When Milos Damjanovic took over the Tavern by the Sea in St George’s, he thought it would take a month or two to turn around. But when he opened the place up he found the plumbing was dying, the kitchen wasn’t functional and the furnishings hadn’t be...

As a youngster Jahroy “Kidd Clazzic” Richards often felt like it was himself against the world. He was bullied so badly in middle school because of his weight, he was home-schooled in high school. He found solace in music. “I liked to make little re...

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 ...