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Esther Zuill’s house is stuffed with books. At the moment, the 88-year-old is reading the Bible from cover to cover. Folks who meet her today would be surprised to learn that books were her greatest nightmare during childhood. “I never in a million y...

Jim Davies expected a few raised eyebrows at Customs. He had travelled to Bermuda alone, yet his luggage was filled with what were clearly women’s clothes. “The customs officer was quite fascinated with a 1937 cap I had in there,” the Londoner said. ...

Ricky Spence was heartbroken when Gregory Bean, his friend since childhood, died three years ago. The Mid-Atlantic Wellness Institute orderly was 53 when he lost his battle with high blood pressure. Mr Spence vowed to do something to help tackle the ...

When Leo Custodio and his wife, Katherine, go out to dinner, it takes them for ever to reach their table. That’s because Mr Custodio has to stop and chat with everyone in the restaurant. “Sometimes my wife gets annoyed,” the 90-year-old said. “When ...

Grace and Liam Flannery put their heart and soul into their first art exhibition. The ten and 13-year-old siblings put up sketches, paintings and ceramics in Journeys: Real and Imagined, at the Bermuda College. Gack stole the show. “I made green sli...

Verde Brown was heartbroken when she was turned down for a mortgage. It was four years ago and she and her husband were trying to buy their dream home in Southampton. “We knew we were going to have either a house or a baby,” said the 39-year-old acco...

Quinton Mallory never expected to be a newlywed at 80. When his wife Sharon died in 2009 he thought that was it for romance. Then he bumped into Patricia Price, at the Warwick Bowling Alley. They’d worked together for years at the Bermuda Telephone...

At 6, Mackenzie Paul was trying to imitate Van Gogh. By the time she was in her teens, her workload at Somersfield Academy was so “intense” her art had to take a back seat. She was thrilled when her parents, Ann and Bryan Paul, agreed to enrol her at...

Five years ago, Richard Burchall stuck a beef frankfurter inside some Johnny bread. Co-workers at Black Horse Tavern, the St David’s restaurant he then worked at, convinced the head chef he was on to a hit. “I love experimenting,” he said. “I though...

Cancer “knocked the hell” out of Jon Beard’s life. It took his wife, Jennie, in 2009 and then his father, Ray. In 2014, Mr Beard found out he had prostate cancer, the disease that had killed his father the year before. “It was disconcerting to develo...