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Games

Come in. Pull up a chair.

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.

Mistaken Point UNESCO World Heritage Site

The Irish Loop

The oldest large, complex life-forms found anywhere on Earth, fossilized on a Newfoundland headland.

Mistaken Point on the southern Avalon preserves Ediacaran fossils between 580 and 541 million years old - the oldest large, complex life-forms found anywhere on Earth - across more than 100 fossil-bearing bedding planes, including a 565-million-year-old seafloor surface. The fossils were discovered in 1967 by Shiva Balak Misra with Paul Thompson, the first such finds in the Western Hemisphere. The site was inscribed by UNESCO on 17 July 2016. The point took its name from ships mistaking it for Cape Race in fog. It sits at Portugal Cove South, about two hours south of St. John's on Highway 10, and is accessible by guided tour only (mistakenpoint.ca, 709-438-1011), mid-May to mid-October, one tour daily at 12:30, lasting 3.5-4 hours over a 6 km moderate trail, limited to 12 people, $23 for adults with children 12 and under free.

How to get there

Portugal Cove South on the southern Avalon, about two hours south of St. John's on Highway 10; the guided tour to the fossil surface books ahead — one tour a day.

Mind yourself

Access to the fossil beds is by guided tour only (UNESCO requirement): book ahead, and expect fog, wind and wet boardwalk on the headland walk in.

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