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Games

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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.

Stephenville Newfoundland

Stephenville is a town of approximately 6,000 people on the west coast of Newfoundland, situated on St. George's Bay. Its modern identity was shaped dramatically by its role as a major American military installation. Harmon Air Force Base, established by the United States in 1941 as part of wartime lease agreements with Britain, operated at Stephenville for over two decades and at its peak housed

Stephenville is a town of approximately 6,000 people on the west coast of Newfoundland, situated on St. George's Bay. Its modern identity was shaped dramatically by its role as a major American military installation. Harmon Air Force Base, established by the United States in 1941 as part of wartime lease agreements with Britain, operated at Stephenville for over two decades and at its peak housed thousands of American military personnel and their families. The base had a profound effect on the town — it brought American culture, consumer goods, and a cosmopolitan atmosphere unusual for rural Newfoundland. Many Newfoundlanders worked on the base and intermarried with American servicemen and women. When Harmon closed in 1966, it left behind a significant infrastructure including a long runway that became the Stephenville Airport, one of the longest runways in Canada and briefly considered as a transatlantic emergency landing site. The former base lands were converted to civilian and industrial use. Stephenville is also known as the home of the Stephenville Festival, a summer theatre festival that for decades brought professional productions to the west coast. The town serves as a regional service centre for the Port au Port Peninsula, which has a significant francophone Acadian heritage community — one of the few such communities in Newfoundland and Labrador.

Fact

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