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.
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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.
Cape Race and the Titanic (1912)
cape-race · The Irish Loop
The wireless station that took the Titanic's distress calls sits on this remote Avalon headland.
Marconi returned to Newfoundland in 1904 to install a wireless station at Cape Race, on the southeastern tip of the Avalon. In April 1912 that station received the distress signals of the sinking Titanic, relaying the disaster's first news to the world from this isolated headland.
How to get there
Cape Race, the southeastern tip of the Avalon, reached on the Irish Loop's southern edge via Route 10 through Portugal Cove South.
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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
