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.
The phantom longship of Fortune Bay
A ghostly Viking longship still sails Fortune Bay.
Documented as folklore: folklorist Dale Jarvis, Heritage NL's intangible cultural heritage officer, collects and retells Newfoundland phantom-ship legends, among them a Fortune Bay story of fishermen in Bay de l'Eau encountering what appeared to be a Viking longship under silent oars; his book 'Haunted Shores: True Ghost Stories of Newfoundland and Labrador' (Flanker Press) gathers the province's ghost-ship traditions. These are storytelling traditions, recorded as such - not verified sightings.
The story they tell
The tale: on certain nights an ancient vessel with a dragon prow glides into the bay, oars muffled, lights cold, and fades before landfall - read by fishermen as an omen of weather or loss.
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
