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.
The pink-white-green tricolour
The pink, white and green is the old flag of the Republic of Newfoundland.
The pink-white-green (PWG) is a real 19th-century 'native flag' tradition, linked to the Newfoundland Natives' Society and the Fishermen's Star of the Sea Association - but it was never an official national flag, and there was never a republic for it to belong to. Peer-reviewed work in the journal Newfoundland and Labrador Studies argues the documented native tricolour was actually red-white-green, with the PWG's popular origin stories partly legendary; the flag's current ubiquity is a 2000s cultural revival. Heritage NL's own article is filed under the 'republic flag' myth.
The story they tell
The romantic yarn: pink for English roses, green for Irish shamrocks, white for peace between them, first raised by a united people - the flag of an imagined republic that never existed, complete with origin tales that grow in the telling.
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
