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.
Peter Easton: the pirate of Conception Bay
The pirate admiral Peter Easton ruled Newfoundland with a fleet of forty ships.
Peter Easton is a real, documented privateer-turned-pirate who operated from Conception Bay in the early 1610s, fortifying Harbour Grace and raiding fishing shipping; the Conception Bay Museum and The Canadian Encyclopedia treat him as a historical figure. The sweeping details - forty ships, 1,500 men, a short-lived 'kingdom' of Newfoundland - come from thin contemporary records amplified by later retellings, and his end was quiet: he moved on to the Mediterranean and secured what amounted to a pardon.
The story they tell
The yarn version: Easton the pirate king holding the whole island, his treasure scattered from Kellys Island to Oak Island - Oak Island writers attach his supposed hoard to the Nova Scotia money pit without a shred of documentation.
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
