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The Value of Verandas
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The Value of Verandas

It protects you from the rain, yet allows you to enjoy the cool summer breeze. It’s the perfect place to sit and observe the world or simply close your eyes for an afternoon nap. It’s a sanctuary that encourages solitude while being the perfect place for a family gathering or evening entertaining-a hostess’s dream. It’s your veranda, and there’s no place in the world like it.     Experts may recommend upgrading a kitchen or bathroom as the best way…


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Bermuda’s Favourite Haunts: King’s Point in Mangrove Bay

King’s Point is the home of (now deceased) Teddy Tucker, internationally known for his underwater venture, knowledge of the sea, and many successful treasure dives around the reefs of Bermuda, and his wife Edna, who is a gracious hostess and…


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Bermuda’s Favourite Haunts: Camden, Paget

Do people still see ghosts at Camden? If you make the story too ghostly, Bermuda will not be able to use the house for official functions!” So remarked a lady from Flatts in 1994. She recalled visiting Camden during the…


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Bermuda’s Favourite Haunts: St. Anne’s Rectory, Southampton

After our marriage, I moved into the St. Anne’s Rectory with Reg. It is a very old house with many interesting features including bricked-up and plastered-over fireplace, which is said to have a secret passage. There were many strange noises…


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Bermuda’s Favourite Haunts: Government House

It has been suggested that one of our early Governors was so unpleasant that his wife was subjected to physical abuse and probably mental as well. Far be it for this writer to assert this as fact and defame the…

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Bermuda’s Favourite Haunts: Gibbs Hill Lighthouse

Completed and activated on May 1, 1846, accounts of unaccountable events at Gibbs Hill Lighthouse have been noted by a few past lighthouse keepers. The following was related to Mac Musson by Michael Dolding of Marine & Ports, part of…