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.
Turning your coat: fairy protections
Turn your coat inside out and the fairies cannot take you.
Documented as folk practice: the Newfoundland record preserves protective customs against fairies - wearing clothing inside out, carrying bread, avoiding known fairy ground after dusk - collected by folklorists and archived at Memorial University; Heritage NL's fairy-tradition resource list is the entry point to the published and archival record.
The story they tell
The rules, still repeated half-seriously on outport walks: never build on a fairy path, keep a piece of bread in your pocket on the barrens, and if you feel yourself being fairy-led, turn a garment inside out to break the spell.
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
