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Mostly during the 1960s, Roger Gosling shot hundreds of photographs of Bermuda life: royal visits and weddings, scenes at bars and beaches; the fashion of the day. He died in 2013, age 71, with no one to leave them to. “Lusher Auctions called me to ...

On a quiet afternoon, Viola Rogers loves going through her collection of certificates. She has amassed quite a few over her 97 years of life. Among them: a longtime service award from the First Church of God in Sandys, three from the Southampton Prin...

Carlton Darrell moved to England at 21 looking for a bigger, more open-minded place. It was 1960 and the Bermuda he left behind had only just desegregated theatres. “It was very difficult for Black Bermudians to purchase homes,” said Mr Darrell, now ...

On May 29, 1907, Norman Butterfield boarded the Pretoria in Hamilton. It was a big day for the baker from Pembroke who decided, at 21, to leave the island and make his home in the Big Apple. One hundred and fourteen years later, as Kenyatta Berry pre...

The 1977 fire at the Southampton Princess Hotel was one of the biggest ever in Bermuda, and Reginald Rawlins had the “misfortune” of being the first fireman on the scene. Adding to the conundrum: it was one of six major fires that night, all of which...

The frigid freeze in Texas last week wasn’t part of Vicki Maiato Pace’s relocation plan. A devastating winter storm caused temperatures to plummet to -2F. Unused to that degree of cold, Texans turned up the heat and overwhelmed the state’s power grid...

At 85, Bernice Smith learnt she had breast cancer. A routine mammogram in 2011 revealed a small spot developing under her breast; the St David’s Islander refused to waste any time on negative emotions. “When you worry about things, that is when they ...

At 34, Reva Minors wishes she had paid greater attention to the pull she felt as a teenager. Television programmes about childbirth, particularly water births, fascinated her – she always felt a little strange about her interest. “I didn’t even have ...

When it comes to the simple pleasures, David Semos loves taking a quick nap in front of the television. And it’s no wonder. He teaches archery and fencing at several schools, runs archery and fencing clubs for adults, is active in the Bermuda Boys’ ...

Susan Folk has fond memories of her childhood in Bermuda – and encourages just about everybody she meets to visit. She has been back more than 20 times since she left the island for the US sometime around the age of 20; Tom Folk, her husband of 41 ye...