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When Ryan Topple first started playing the saxophone, he was so bad his mother asked him to play in the garage for the sake of her ears. It was much the same for brothers Ross and Gareth Cooper. “On one hand, they wanted us to practice,” 13-year-old...

Ellen Hollis readily admits she is not the best archer in the world. The 45-year-old hits the bull’s-eye maybe once in 50 tries. “But when I do, I get a swing in my step and a smile on my face,” Ms Hollis said. She plays once a month, with David Semo...

Jacob Weiss has a daily struggle with Tourette’s: his eyelids twitch; his wrists flex repeatedly. Put him on stage with juggling balls and that all melts away. “I get into that zone and everything just flows,” said Mr Weiss, whose troupe Playing By A...

Khira-Milan Smith was overjoyed when she was chosen for a coding club at St George’s Preparatory School. There was only room for 20 students, so names had to be pulled from a hat. “I was like, I hope my name gets chosen. I hope it gets chosen,” the...

Al Seymour has always been a compulsive sketcher. As a child, he’d draw on anything within reach; the white pine coffins at Cecil W. Frith Funeral Home proved “irresistible”. He said: “I started helping out there when I was very little. The workmen t...

Rose Douglas longed to become a teacher but her father made his views clear — he did not believe in educating girls. It did not stop her from dreaming. As a teenager she started “pretend teaching” on Suffering Lane, the St George’s street she lived ...

Lynette Gibson has heard every imaginable excuse for not getting a mammogram. They all take her back to her mother, Olive Richardson. She died in 1992 after a nine-year battle that started with breast cancer. It’s possible she might have survived the...

Boyd Smith sobbed when he was told he had to drop out of school. He had dreamt of becoming an architect. “Two of my older sisters went to Berkeley,” the 90-year-old said. “My father, Seward, couldn’t afford to send me also. “There was only one schol...

St Kitts-Nevis and Bermuda are 1,675 miles apart, but Louise Tannock is determined to bridge the gap. In the 41 years since she moved from St Kitts to Bermuda, she has taken schoolchildren to meet relatives in St Kitts-Nevis, hosted visitors from the...

Sheila Johnson believes in disciplining the old-fashioned way — the strap. “I was strict,” the 81-year-old laughed. “I don’t think I could be a teacher today. You can’t discipline children anymore and I’ve heard that parents aren’t supportive of te...