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Robert Lee had never rowed in his life so at 76, when a friend suggested he give it a try, he was a little bemused. Six years later, however, he is in love with the sport. Twice a week at 8am the eager member of the Bermuda Pilot Gig Club is at the ...

Watching her daughter, Austin, grow up is a bittersweet experience for Shawnette Smith. While she loves that the 11-year-old is becoming more independent, it sometimes gets her down. “I definitely find it painful that my daughter does not need me as ...

Willem Mulder loves painting, but laughs about his actual talent. “I was amazed,” he said. “Last year two of my paintings sold in the Warwick Academy Art Auction. One went for $25 and one went for $75.” He had his first lesson as an adult at the Berm...

Nylah Bassett is one of Bermuda’s youngest YouTube sensations. The three-year-old started helping her mother to cook almost as soon as she could sit up on her own. “I would put her on the counter and she would help me mix,” said Kiara Somner. Nylah...

In 1953 Anne Hines became the first Bermudian to successfully dance en pointe in public. She did it at the Colonial Opera House on Victoria Street where she played the dying swan in Swan Lake. “My friend was supposed to do it,” the 82-year-old said. ...

The aged Pembroke Rest Home building on Parsons Road had sat empty for 12 years. Its floors and ceilings were falling in and the wiring and plumbing needed a complete overhaul. Edward Fox, a civil service engineer, who sits on the board of Habitat f...

Jill Amos Raine has painted and sold art in St George's since 1975. So it made sense to her, when her husband David died in 2004, to sell their Devonshire property and move to Convict Bay. “People told me not to make any major decisions for the firs...

Raygina Fox was ready for the trip of a lifetime – a seven-day hike up Tanzania’s Mount Kilimanjaro. A week before her departure she learnt the $1,950 she paid to an American booking agent for the trip was part of a $38,000 lump sum that he mysteriou...

Ruth Ann Lambe loves a good celebration. The 82-year-old is usually the one to organise the parties and get-togethers in the family. One of the most memorable was her and her husband Vernon's 59th wedding anniversary celebration – in 2018 the couple ...

At 35 years old Roslyn Cure weighed 300lbs. Her weight put so much stress on her joints that doctors predicted she would need knee and hip replacements before she hit 40. “I remember it took me 20 minutes to climb a flight of 13 stairs to my door an...