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.
Taken by the fairies
Children who wandered off or went strange were said to be taken by the fairies.
Documented as folklore, extensively. Folklorists record Newfoundland narratives of children and berry pickers led away or changed by the fairies - a belief tradition carried from Ireland and the West Country and adapted to Newfoundland barrens and berry grounds. Peter Narvaez's essay on berry pickers and fairy legends in 'The Good People: New Fairylore Essays' (1997) and Barbara Rieti's 'Strange Terrain' are the key studies; Heritage NL's resource list surveys them. These are collected oral narratives, not reports of verified events.
The story they tell
The tales: a child gone quiet and never quite right afterward was a changeling left in exchange; a picker who followed faint music over the hill was fairy-led and came back days later, or never. Families told these as explanation and warning, and some storytellers still tell them half-believing.
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
