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.
Advertise here
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.
Ode to Newfoundland
The province's official anthem - sung at Regattas, graduations and every gathering that matters since 1902.
The Ode to Newfoundland sets words written in 1902 by Governor Sir Cavendish Boyle to music by the English composer Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry. It was first performed on 22 December 1902 at the Casino Theatre in St. John's by Frances Daisy Foster, and was adopted as the official anthem of the colony on 20 May 1904, a status retained under provincial law today. Audiences stand for it at events from the Royal St. John's Regatta to school concerts - the first verse's 'beloved island' still lands hard in a room of Newfoundlanders.
How to get there
No road to it. You will hear it at the Regatta, at graduations, and at the end of most nights that mean anything.
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
