About The Author

Thomas MacDonald was born in Bermuda in 1953 and later emigrated to the United States. While in Bermuda, Thomas attended the Bermuda Technical Institute, a boys-only high school. His formative years were spent living in Somerset where he was an avid swimmer and learned to sail comet class sailboats. Thomas’ work career was in TV production, banking, and then accounting for a Dutch-held insurance company. By 1984 he became the second Black Bermudian to head an offshore company.

While living in Bermuda, Thomas developed a passion for photography and began keeping a personal journal.

Landing in Chicago, Illinois in 1985, Thomas worked for Marshall Field at its flagship department store on State Street. There he met his lifelong partner, Bill Henning. While still living in Chicago Thomas took a job with the Bermuda Department of Tourism and in 1998 was promoted to head up the Boston office. The couple relocated to Salem, Massachusetts where they continue to reside. In 2005 Bermuda Tourism assigned Thomas to establish an office in London, England.

After retiring from the tourism office Thomas worked for a decade as Director of Sales for the Hawthorne Hotel in their hometown of Salem until his full retirement at the end of 2016.

Thomas and Bill are both passionate about travel. The couple has traveled around the country from Alaska to Florida and have visited destinations further afield such as Australia, Hong Kong, Europe and Mauritius. In recent years they have traveled to New Zealand, India, Singapore and the Panama Canal.