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Lawson Mapp jokingly refers to himself as the last of the dinosaurs. He thinks he’s the only sign painter on the island who still works entirely by hand. “There are many sign painters in Bermuda today, but most of them rely on computers and don’t kno...

It’s not always easy being the child of a trained chef, even if you love cooking. Liz Tee’s father Joe is always grumbling about her knife skills. “If he sees me chopping he’ll say: ‘Liz, get those fingers out of the way!’” she said. “I never cut my...

Rose-Anna Hoey realises she regularly gives Railway Trail users a bit of a fright. She’s out running every morning at 4am; her footsteps are light, the beam from her tiny torch is often the only signal of her approach. “Sometimes the walkers don’t he...

Marguerite Bean took early retirement in 2000 with two things on her bucket list. The first was an Alaskan cruise. “I went and had a good time,” the 78-year-old said. Her second plan was to go back to school. She’d wanted to be a nurse since childh...

Eddie’s Bar & Grille in Venice Beach, California might be 3,000 miles from Bermuda, but there’s a decided Bermuda flavour running through the place. A Bermuda flag hangs in the corner of the watering hole, and at least one of the patrons drinks Dark ...

Sheila Nicholls might be one of Bermuda’s most loyal visitors. The 82-year-old and her family have visited the island more than 30 times in 27 years. Wherever the Hamilton, Ontario, resident goes, she bigs up the island. “Back home, my friends don’t ...

There are few things Cimeon Tyrrell will not do for a great photograph. To shoot one picture she crawled through prickly underbrush on her stomach to get into an abandoned house near her home. “That was probably the craziest thing I’ve done,” said t...

Cooking pasta would normally be a painless exercise for an experienced chef like James Perry. He has cooked on super yachts and in fine hotels and even taught at university level. Simple meals suddenly became a lot more complicated when he spent two ...

James Paynter has bad knees and he blames it on his wife, Marie. He wore them out when they were courting back in the 1950s, pedalling from his home in St George’s to visit her in Sandys. “I’d hit damp patches around by Warwick Pond or going over th...

Choreographer Darrell Grand Moultrie has worked with everyone from Beyoncé to the Alvin Ailey Dancers, so you’d think teaching a bunch of children in Bermuda would seem dull by comparison. However, the 40-year-old New Yorker was only too happy to te...