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.
Marconi's First Transatlantic Wireless Signal (1901)
On a windy December day in 1901, St. John's received the first radio signal across an ocean.
On 12 December 1901 Guglielmo Marconi, working from an abandoned hospital building on Signal Hill, flew a kite trailing an antenna wire and claimed to hear the letter 'S' transmitted from Poldhu, England, roughly 2,100 miles away - the first transatlantic wireless signal. The Anglo-American Telegraph Company, which held the transatlantic cable monopoly, responded with threats of legal action, and Marconi left Newfoundland. He returned in 1904 to install a wireless station at Cape Race. Marconi went on to win the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics.
How to get there
Signal Hill interpretation panels near Cabot Tower tell the kite-antenna story steps from where it happened.
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
