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.
Mummering: any mummers 'lowed in?
Disguised Christmas house-visits - mummering - are still a living Newfoundland custom.
Mummering (also janneying) is documented across the province: during the Twelve Days of Christmas, disguised visitors knock and ask 'Any mummers 'lowed in?', dance, play music and share treats while hosts guess who they are - a tradition documented from the 19th century and revived strongly since Simani's 1980s 'The Mummers Song' and the founding of the Heritage NL Mummers Festival in 2009. MUN's Intangible Cultural Heritage collections document it household by household.
How to get there
No road to it: it happens in houses, in the twelve days of Christmas. The Mummers Festival in St. John's is where a visitor can take part.
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
