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Mark Twain got mischievous at his first Bermuda cricket game, deliberately peppering his host with silly questions. The exasperated host, probably US vice consul William Allen, told him wickets were for the umpire to sit on when he got tired. Twain, ...

Chelsea Smith’s family moved five times when she was growing up. She changed schools every time they moved. Each time there were new friends to make and new routines to learn. “The experience was stressful,” said the 38-year-old. “Although I didn’t l...

‘Slight Fright’ is just five minutes long but at the moment it is Al Seymour Jr’s cinematic masterpiece. If you’ve watched ‘Goosebumps’ at the Liberty Theatre, you have most likely seen the 18-year-old’s big screen debut. The short film shows immedia...

Charles Jeffers dreams were shattered when his high school scholarship was withdrawn. He was 16 and earning only passing grades at Berkeley Institute. He wanted to become a lawyer. His widowed mother was struggling to provide for him and his three si...

The first time Nasya Joell danced on stage he was nine. He was so nervous he kept dropping his prop but the experience got him hooked on performing. By the time his family left Bermuda for Huntsville, Alabama a year later, Nasya was dancing competiti...

Shawn Ming never wanted to become a cook. He rebelled against the prospect from an early age, despite urgings from his father Fred, a popular chef who taught culinary arts at the Bermuda College. “I definitely did not want to take after my father,” t...

Carolyn Soares didn’t know how lucky she was until she went to South Africa. She taught English to 10-year-olds without computers or sufficient textbooks in Mpumalanga, eastern South Africa. Huge numbers of children were jammed into tiny classrooms i...

It’s been 18 years since Edward Durham retired, but the former football coach has not been forgotten. He trained members of the Pembroke Hamilton Club for five years. According to the 80-year-old, the instruction he gave wasn’t limited to the footba...

It’s not easy going back to school at 39. But drug addiction counsellor Isis Wellman is determined to do so to combat what she sees as Bermuda’s growing tide of drug addiction. Mrs Wellman works for the Turning Point Substance Abuse Programme. She re...

Children are the same, the world over. That’s what Nadia Khan learnt from a summer spent teaching in Thailand. “I thought there would be more cultural differences,” said the 31-year-old teacher. “With my own students at Somersfield Academy, they ofte...