Bermuda
“Colin, tell me everything you know about moon gates.” To that he answered, “First tell me everything you know about moon gates.” Admittedly, I thought I knew a lot about them because I had read an article or two online about the origin of these circular features. But, when I recited my findings, Colin shook his head in disappointment. It turns out moon gates in Bermuda were not brought to the shores of Grenada by pipe-smoking, white-bearded sea captains who had noticed them during their travels through Asia. Instead, it was the design of an imaginative English master gardener in the early 1920s. While his identity is
Colin is my brilliant friend who also happens to be an accomplished architect based in Bermuda. If anyone was going to help me understand the lure of the moon gate, it was him. As I watched the tiny island disappear from my window seat, I made a tentative plan to return to Bermuda in the late spring and convince Colin to take me on an impromptu moon gate tour around Hamilton. But we all know what happened to our travel plans in 2020. Instead of zooming down Front Street on a scooter, however, we settled for a Zoom virtual happy hour and I finally got to broach the subject of moon gates.
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