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Written by Sandra Campbell
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Many Bermuda place names evoke beauty spots with stunning vistas of sea, sand and sky; one has only to think of Fairylands, Paynter's Vale or Horseshoe Bay, for example. However, a few Bermuda place names have sinister overtones. So it is with Skeeters' Corner, in Somerset near Daniel's Head, site of a notorious nineteenth-century murder that haunts the island psyche to this day. The particulars of the crime encompass dark midnight doings, doomed women, decaying corpses, eeri... |
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Written by Elizabeth Jones
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Although she was born in Bermuda on August 30, 1935, Ann Smith Gordon spent some years of her childhood in the U.S. “I was ill as a child,” she explains, “and my parents were told, ‘If you don’t get this child away, she’s going to die.’ So we went to stay with my mother’s sister in North Carolina. This was in 1943. They thought I was an asthmatic, but it turned out I was allergic to virtually every food on the face of the earth!”
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Written by Elizabeth Jones
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When James Alfred Lister left his country, the island of St. Kitts, in 1902 to sail to Bermuda, he embarked on a family journey far longer than the geographical one between two islands. Travelling with him to Bermuda were his wife and family of five; the youngest, also named James, was just a baby. Because James Alfred was black, the only work available to him once he reached Bermuda was menial. He started to work for the Royal Naval Dockyard in Sandys Parish under ... |
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Written by Elizabeth Jones
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Emma Ingham’s first home was in Southampton, but the first house she remembers was Breezy Hollow on Cobb’s Hill Road. “The novelty of that,” she explains, “was if I stood in the middle of the road, on one side I’d be in Paget and on the other in Warwick.” The house was appropriately named because it was in a hollow off the Railway Trail. Her father, Ernest Field Ingham, owned three and a half acres of land, but he also rented arable land opposite Cobb... |
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