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Games

Come in. Pull up a chair.

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.

Brimstone Head

fogo-island · The Kittiwake Coast

A slab of ancient rock over the sea - and, by one account, a corner of the flat Earth.

Brimstone Head is a 145 m headland of Precambrian rock at Fogo Island's western edge, rising sheer over the community of Fogo. A short, steep trail takes hikers to the crest for panoramic views of icebergs, whales and the Newfoundland coast. The Flat Earth Society of Canada long ago singled out Brimstone Head as one of the four corners of a flat Earth - a claim Tourism NL happily retells, though no geologist has ever agreed.

The story they tell

The Flat Earth Society held that the Earth is a disc and that Brimstone Head is one of its four corners; locals will direct you to the corner with a straight face.

How to get there

Signposted trailhead near the ferry dock at Fogo; 20 minutes up the headland on the island's western edge for views of icebergs, whales and the coast.

Mind yourself

The trail is short and steep with sheer drops at the crest — wear real footwear and keep back from the edge.

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