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A shared trip

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.

Newfoundland time: the half-hour zone

Newfoundland has its own time zone half an hour off, because Newfoundlanders do everything their own way.

The island keeps Newfoundland Standard Time at UTC-3:30 (and UTC-2:30 in daylight months) - the only such zone in the Americas. The offset reflects St. John's longitude, roughly 3.5 hours behind Greenwich; the Commission of Government's Standard Time Act of 1935 fixed it for the then-Dominion, and the modern Standard Time Act (RSNL 1990 c S-23) still defines provincial time. Most of Labrador, by contrast, keeps Atlantic Time. CBC documents the history of the famous half hour.

The story they tell

The affectionate doctrine of 'Newfoundland time' - that everything on the island starts half an hour (at least) late - and the joke that the zone exists so Newfoundlanders can be first at everything. The lateness saying is real local humor; it is not the reason for the offset.

How to get there

No road to it: the zone covers the island and southeastern Labrador. Coming off the Gulf ferry, put your watch ahead half an hour from Atlantic time.

Some 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