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Eugene “Buck” Woods knows a good thing when he sees it. He spotted Jewell Raynor on the street in 1957 and knew instantly that she’d make an excellent wife. “She was a very attractive young lady,” the 83-year-old recalled. “There was just something ...

Imagine seeing life through a greasy camera lens — colours are dimmer; contrasts less easy to discern. Everything becomes harder: crossing the road safely, reading, recognising the faces of loved ones. It is an everyday experience for many of the 2,...

Lucille Spencer fits a bit of exercise into every morning. She touches her toes and stretches; if there is music on, she will dance. The 95-year-old thinks her efforts are one of the reasons she has aged well — most people assume she is years younger...

Dancing in front of Debbie Allen was tough, but Ava Moreno won her over. The legendary performer was “very intense” said the 11-year-old, who was a bundle of nerves during the last-minute audition. She and seven other members of DanceSations School o...

At 25, Porsha Kimble lost her job after a drug test showed she had been using cocaine. She thinks baking saved her life. As she worked on getting herself clean, she decided it was a way to pay her bills. “Nobody in my family knew, but I’d been abusi...

James Delgado started in archaeology anticipating a career with his feet firmly on dry land. What changed his mind was an old whaling ship under San Francisco's financial district, six blocks from the ocean. “In 1978, my employers, the US National Pa...

Hillary Williams still remembers the first time he read one of his poems in public. At 5, his voice boomed as he stood bravely in front of the church congregation: “Mattock, shovel, rake and hoe, plant some beans and let them grow. When they’ve grown...

After the Boston Marathon bombing, Claire de Ste Croix thought she’d never run another big race. She crossed the finish line only minutes before the 2013 explosion that killed three and injured hundreds along the route. In 2017, however, the 53-year-...

People seemed so welcoming when David Garland arrived in Bermuda in 1961 he instantly fell in love. He soon got to see the darker side of things. On February 2, 1965, he had the dubious honour of being the first officer injured in the Belco riots. H...

JayLynn Hines’s family was flabbergasted when she won Intense Mas’s song competition. Although she’d written tunes before, she couldn’t sing a note. It didn’t matter. The 23-year-old had YouTube on her side. “I found a video that suggested using a pl...