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Sailing on the Careen

Incredible stories of cleaning old Bermuda windjammers before the days of dry-docks. This article first appeared in the April 1932 issue of The Bermudian.  Each day during the working week an old white freight boast under an enormous spread of canva...

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Art & Soul: A Portrait of Portuguese Culture

Starting in the 1440s, the uninhabited islands of the Azores and Madeira were settled by members of Portugal’s underclass of farmers and grantee-landowner class looking for a better life. Later came Italian, German and English merchants, Spanish prie...

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Much Excellent Fish: February 1938

Have you heard about the fishermen in Bermuda? We – that’s me and old Charlie Ball of the Gratitude, Carl Stubbs of the Princeton, Joe Soares of the Spanish Queen and young Louis Mowbray, who helps his father run the Government Aquarium. And for a m...

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The Mystery of Shark Oil

This article was taken from our archives. It first appeared in the April 1982 issue of The Bermudian. It appears here exactly as it did originally.  It was an early Saturday morning when scientist, Dr Wolfgang Sterrer, stepped outside his Ferry ...

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The Song and Signal of St. David’s

Reprinted from the June 1957 issue of The Bermudian   O, I’ve kept my watch for centuries In every kind of weather, Since the Olden day when galleons Linked all the seas together. I mark the crossroads of the sea, I greet ships hour by hour, An...