Projects

This volume of the Finding Home Bahamas Magazine is documenting the experience of everyday Bahamians since the country reopened its borders to travelers and all business activities resumed in 2021. The Post-Isolation project collected stories, thoughts, and feelings of being free from the isolation brought on by the 2020 COVID-19 lockdowns in The Bahamas. These experiences were collected between August and December 2021. The 2021 magazine also features the Pandemic in Paradise project by the Heritage Partners, which documents the Bahamian experience of 2020. 

The contributions are shared in the 2021 Finding Home Magazine. The collection is saved and archived with Finding Home Bahamas and the University of The Bahamas Special Collections for future reference and educational use.

Finding Home has conducted genealogy research for both local and international individuals and companies. Some of which have included ancestry tracing for American celebrities of Bahamian descent.

Finding Home Bahamas had the privilege of conducting research into the history of the Royal Victoria Hotel site and surrounding area for the Central Bank of The Bahamas’ relocation project. The relocation of the Central Bank of The Bahamas’ offices to the former Royal Victoria site is a major undertaking and one that is being conducted in a culturally sensitive manner. We appreciate that an institution of this magnitude would give careful consideration to the historical and cultural significance of its chosen location, the impact of its actions, and thoughtfully integrate the subjects into its development plans. The new Central Bank of The Bahamas facility is proposed to be a cultural hub and include a museum, art gallery, and movie theater.

This multi-disciplinary project entitled “The Swan Song of the Flamingo” was the brainchild of internationally renowned Bahamian artist, Kishan Monroe. Monroe sought to bring light to the little known or understood armed conflict that took place in Bahamian waters on May 10th, 1980, and to commemorate the brave young men who lost their lives in the sinking of the HMBS Flamingo.

“The Swan Song of the Flamingo” opened at the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas in November 2013. Backed by research conducted by Finding Home Bahamas, the project presented paintings, photography, audio, dance, and literature. At local archives, newspapers and court proceedings were searched to inspire memory and analysis of the incident and the events that followed.

Finding Home has had the privilege of assisting Archaeologist and Historic Preservationist, Dr. Fennelle Miller and Jacquelyn Hunt in researching the history of settlement on Long Island between 1700 and 1820. One of the products of this project will be an interactive map showing the history of land ownership on Long Island, to be released in the summer of 2022.

Between April and December 2020, Finding Home Bahamas invited submissions of any type that expressed how individuals in The Bahamas were doing, feeling, and spending their days during the period of self-isolation and quarantine due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The contributions are shared in issue 1 of the Finding Home Magazine. The collection is saved and archived with Finding Home Bahamas and the University of The Bahamas Special Collections for future reference and educational use.