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.
Demasduit ('Mary March') and Nonosbawsut
Mary March was a famous Beothuk woman the settlers rescued.
Demasduit, whom settlers called Mary March, was a young Beothuk woman captured by a settler expedition in March 1819 near Red Indian Lake; her husband, the headman Nonosbawsut, was killed during the capture. She died of tuberculosis in 1820 before a planned return to her people. Heritage NL commemorates her history, and in 2020 the remains of Demasduit and Nonosbawsut - taken to Scotland by explorer William Cormack's party in the 19th century - were repatriated to Newfoundland and Labrador through The Rooms and the provincial government.
The story they tell
The softened telling, in which she was 'rescued' or willingly came to live among settlers. The documented record is a violent capture and its aftermath, and it is presented that way.
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
