Maneuvering a pilot boat alongside a steamer is a task (even today) which calls for iron nerve, not a little courage and seamanship of the highest order. This article was first published in the December 1932 issue of The Bermudian. It appears here ex...
Making a satisfying meal with dried, salted cod at the centrepiece had to have been a close to insurmountable challenge for Bermuda's early settlers. But necessity is the mother of invention, the making of a meal worth eating with precious few availa...
This article was taken from our archives. It first appeared in the October 1931 issue of The Bermudian. It appears here exactly as it did originally. Fern Island becomes, every summer, a rendezvous for youth. Early evening brings to this sma...
Relying on local shipbuilding expertise and the fastest ships, Bermuda's privateers enjoyed lucrative success. The first couple of generations of settlers in Bermuda had to scramble to make their living, They grew tobacco, of course, and that was ...
32° 19’ 59” N /64° 45’ 0” W Pull back the mantle of the oceanand strange the ocean.Bring down the ether from the skyand fable the sky.Assemble dot by dot the starsand cipher the starsand strange the oceanand fable the sky.Pull back the mantle of t...
Thanks to botanists both amateur and professional, plant specimens have been sent out of Bermuda to be carefully dried, stored and labeled in herbariums in Europe and North America since the 17th century. Herbariums housing Bermuda collections includ...
