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.
A time: the Newfoundland kitchen party
In Newfoundland a party is called 'a time', and every kitchen has a fiddle in it.
The kitchen party - accordion, fiddle, tin whistle, ugly stick, step-dancing in the kitchen - is a documented Newfoundland and Labrador custom rooted in Irish and Scottish settler house-visit traditions. Heritage NL notes the kitchen party has been enshrined as an iconic image of Newfoundland life in television and tourism promotion, and Newfoundlanders do genuinely say they are 'having a time'. The modern cliché of the universal nightly kitchen ceilidh is tourism gloss on a real but occasion-based custom.
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
