Daily Archives February 16, 2013

Rediscovering ‘Bermuda King’

Photos by Ira Philip Vincent Samuels (second left) in the Gallery of the Bermuda Historical Society Museum about to receive what he said is the only photograph (other than sketches) he had seen of James (Dick) Richards. The photograph is from the gallery operated in Hamillton Parish by the late June Augustus of black people playing significant roles in the history of 20th Century Bermuda. Upon her death, her husband, Alfred Augustus (right) and their daughter, Bonnie Clagette, donated the collection to the Historical Society Gallery. At left above is Andrew Bermingham, the president of the Society and society executive Mrs Shirley Robinson Pearman.

We finally caught up personally this week with a distingished Jamaican, Vincent Samuels who can best be described as a man on an exciting miss...

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