Games
Come in. Pull up a chair.
Them days you sent a youngster up the road to say there was a game on. Now you send the code, and if a chair's still empty when you deal, one of the regulars takes it.
Advertise here
Skipper
Got a place worth the drive?
Down the road
Well, Sunday after Mass we'd walk it. Start at the gate and go down, and every house along here I'll tell you who's in it.
Red ochre and the name 'Red Indians'
The Beothuk painted themselves red as war paint to frighten settlers.
The Beothuk used red ochre on skin, clothing, tools, canoes and lodges - partly for preservation and waterproofing, and with documented cultural and spiritual significance (Heritage NL; James P. Howley's 1915 classic 'The Beothuks or Red Indians'). European fishermen who saw the ochre-covered people called them Red Indians - the name records the observers' impression, not a declaration of war. Ochre analysis is part of the archaeological interpretation at Boyd's Cove.
The story they tell
The myth that the red paint was aggressive war paint aimed at Europeans - a reading borrowed from movie Plains imagery rather than the Beothuk record, and one Skipper corrects gently.
Some story
Where that comes from
On the go
Them days the garden party was the whole summer. Here's what's on the go now, and when.
The kitchen
Well, Sunday the pot was on before Mass and the smell of it met you at the gate. Here's what was in it, and how it's done.
The hall
Them days the hall had a dance Saturday and the kitchen had music the rest of the week. It's still playing. Come in and listen.
The yarns
He said, you know the one about the light on the water. I said, I do. That's a story, mind, and I'll tell you which parts.
Not the house
No, I said, that's not the house. It was down just below there. Go back up the road.
Back up the road
