2019 BERMUDA PLEIN AIR FESTIVAL

Best WATERCOLOUR AND BEST IN SHOW – POPPY BALSER

BEST OIL – ELI CEDRONE

BEST ACRYLIC – STEPHEN CONWAY

BEST PASTEL – VIVIENNE GARDNER

BEST QUICK ART – JILL RAINE

OUR FESTIVAL EXHIBITION

What an amazing adventure !

It started at 8:30 in the morning collecting work.

From there it went to hanging the work until 12:00pm.
Thank you to our hanging team. Think hanging over 200 paintings is easy ? Whew !

Not to mention the labels that had to printed for each one… Barb and Ericka… You are incredible !

Judging started just after 12:00 and it took about 2 hours.

Appreciation goes to our 3 wonderful judges
Lyn Donovan
Michael Harding
and Stephen Lynton.

That was no easy task !

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1 – ‘Quick Art’ – Cambridge Beaches

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31 – Warwick Long Bay

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30 – North Hamlton

TUESDAY OCTOBER 29 – St. Georges

MONDAY’S LOCATION – OCTOBER 28, 2019

Captain Daniel Outerbridge Algate lived at Sandmount and his brother Dr. Thaddus Outerbridge lived at Willoughby across the bay.    Captain Daniel died in a shipwreck aged 35. He was believed drowned in a hurricane of June 7, 1832, along with his brother Captain William Burrows Algate.  They were en route form New York to the West Indies when the double tragedy occurred.    Captain Daniel was described by historian Anna Maria Outerbridge as “one of the best men in the parish, honourable, independent and well to do”.

Sandymount is a single storey house built into the sheltered side of the hillside east of Bailey’s Bay.   It dates back to the early 18th century.   We do not know who lived in it for the first 100 year os its existence, Captain Daniel being the first documented owner.  

After the shipwreck, Captain Daniel’s widow was Harriet North Outerbridge Algate.  Anna Maria Outerbridge describes her as “not bright” and added, she “profited little by the (educational) advantages she had”.   She did concede she was handsome” and “notable as a house keeper”.   However, Anna Maria says Harriet “allowed herself to be cheated out of” the insurance on her husband’s vessel.   

6 years after Daniel’s death, Harriet Algate married widower Thomas Hill of Lynwood, crawl.   He was a shipbuilder and described himself as a “gentleman” taking the title “Esquire”.   Nevertheless, in 1841 Harriet had to sell the sandymount property to clear her second husband’s debts.

Sandymount was purchased in 1841 for 160 pounds by Joseph Outerbridge.   He was a carpenter and farmer.  He and his wife had a large family at sAndymount, ten of whom survived into adulthood.   After his death in 1888 at Sandmount, aged 74 – the property came to be owned by numerous of his descendants and continued in divided ownership within the family for most of the 20th century until purchases by the current owner in 1980.   By then, it has been in the hands of Joseph Outerbridge and his heirs for 139 years.   

The old chimney of the kitchen at Sandymount is at the rear of the house.  The narrow passage between the chimney and the rock face, right, led to an entrance to a loft which was once above the kitchen…

The cottage was in a dilapidated condition but has been carefully restored and retains its traditional charm, despite being more than double in size with the old detached kitchen having been incorporated into the house.  

(The older 18th century L-shaped section is to the right, with the newer 20th century additions to the left.   The old kitchen with its large chimney is centre rear.   The newer additions incorporate the originally separate cottage.)

SUNDAY’S LOCATION

FORT SCAUR, PUBLIC DOCK AT ELY’S HARBOUR, WILLOWBANK HOTEL

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