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Games

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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.

The Beothuk: what the record actually says

The Beothuk just vanished.

The Beothuk were the island of Newfoundland's Indigenous people at the time of European arrival. Their decline had specific, documented causes - introduced disease, displacement from coastal fishing grounds, food scarcity in some years, and violent encounters including raids and kidnappings by settlers - rather than a single event. Shanawdithit, who died of tuberculosis in St. John's on 6 June 1829 at about 29 years of age, is the last reliably documented Beothuk; Heritage NL lays out this record, and a CBC Secret Life of Canada episode examines whether 'last' and 'extinction' are even accurate framings, given scholarly and Indigenous discussion of Beothuk ancestry and legacy. Skipper treats this record with care and never as trivia.

The story they tell

Two tourist myths to refuse: the 'mysterious vanished without a trace' version, and the flattened 'hunted to extinction' one-liner. The Beothuk left a substantial documented record - including Shanawdithit's drawings - and the real history of disease, exclusion and violence is specific, somber, and told straight.

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