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.
Fairies
Newfoundland's fairy belief came over with the Irish and the West Country English - and never really left.
Folklorists document fairy belief as a living Newfoundland tradition: folktales and fairy beliefs were among the traditions carried over from England and Ireland by settlers. In the local 'belief' genre, fairies sit alongside the devil, ghosts, and the 'old hag' as supernatural beings of everyday tradition. The heritage record stresses that each generation picks what it likes from its heritage and retells it - so the fairy stories vary by teller and era. The tradition is preserved and studied at Memorial University's Folklore and Language Archive (MUNFLA), documented in works like the Dictionary of Newfoundland English (1982/1990) and Folktales of Newfoundland (1996).
The story they tell
Fairy belief is treated here exactly as the sources treat it: a genuine, documented belief tradition rather than a verified phenomenon - the tales themselves are folklore, full stop.
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
