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.
Gander: Crossroads of the World
gander · The Trans-Canada
The town that grew beside the biggest airport on Earth in 1938.
Construction of the airport at Gander began in 1936 with a crew of 900 by the end of 1937, and the first plane landed on 11 January 1938; with four paved runways it was the largest airport in the world at the time. In the Second World War Gander was the main staging point for the movement of Allied aircraft to Europe, and postwar it became the technical stop for transatlantic civil aviation, handling thousands of flights annually. The town grew up around the airport, styled the 'Crossroads of the World', and its history is told by the Gander Airport Authority and the North Atlantic Aviation Museum.
How to get there
Gander on the Trans-Canada: the North Atlantic Aviation Museum is on the highway, and the airport's retro 1959 international lounge is worth the detour.
Fact
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
