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This anniversary year of the official settlement of Bermuda by the Virginia Company of London 400 years ago also marks the eighth year of this column, which, it is hoped, has indicated to many on this isolated pile of rocks in the middle of the western North Atlantic that our heritage matters. If you think the articles on ‘Heritage Matters' have been of value, then thanks are due to Sheila Nicoll, a trustee of the National Museum of Bermuda, whose suggestions for interaction with you, the public, led to the beginning of the column in February, 2005 in the now-defunct Mid-Ocean News (this is article number 340).
The newspaper was headed by a brilliant Editor, Tim Hodgson, who once had the pleasure of describing me in an editorial as being ‘as huggable as a prickly pear': so give thanks and a hug to that bear of a man when next your cross his path.
Source: Royal Gazette