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Games

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Trivia

The Board

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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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.

L'Anse aux Meadows

lanse-aux-meadows · The Viking Trail

The only confirmed Norse site in North America - Vikings were here 1,000 years ago.

L'Anse aux Meadows at the tip of Newfoundland's Northern Peninsula is the first known evidence of European presence in the Americas. Norse settlers from Greenland established a small encampment of timber-and-sod buildings here over 1,000 years ago (ca. AD 1000); the archaeological remains of eight buildings and artifacts of iron working were excavated from the 1960s onward. The site was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1978 and is managed by Parks Canada, with reconstructed sod buildings and costumed interpretation.

The story they tell

Some sagas place a place called Vinland here, with grapes and wild grain; the meadows at L'Anse aux Meadows grow no grapes, and the name's true referent remains debated.

How to get there

At the tip of the Northern Peninsula, about 2.5 hours north of Gros Morne via the Viking Trail (Route 430); the Parks Canada site and reconstructed sod camp sit at the end of the road past St. Anthony's turn.

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