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 distress
cape-race · The Irish Loop
Newfoundland's Cape Race wireless station heard the Titanic's SOS and broke the news to the world.
On the night of 14-15 April 1912 the Marconi station at Cape Race - operators Walter Gray, J.C.R. Goodwin and Robert Hunston - was in direct communication with RMS Titanic and relayed the first confirmed news of the disaster to New York, where the Associated Press had a correspondent positioned for exactly such relays. The Rooms holds the operators' firsthand account. Titanic's senior operator Jack Phillips had been sending passenger traffic to Cape Race for relay shortly before the collision; the inquiries later examined the nearby Californian's wireless silence. The station site is interpreted along the Mistaken Point coast.
How to get there
The interpreted station site is at Cape Race on the southern Avalon; the operators' own account of Titanic night is held at The Rooms, 9 Bonaventure Avenue, St. John's.
Fact
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
