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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.

Elliston's Root Cellars

elliston · The Bonavista Peninsula

Hillsides pocked with little doors, where a whole town once kept its winter.

Elliston on the Bonavista Peninsula is known as the Root Cellar Capital of the World, and its hillsides hold a remarkable density of root cellars - earth-insulated storage rooms dug into the ground, roofed with timber and sod, in which families kept turnips, potatoes, cabbage and other provisions through winter. The cellars were the initial attraction that put Elliston on the tourism map, and many have been restored and signposted for visitors.

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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