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.
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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.
Mummering was once against the law
Mummering used to be illegal in Newfoundland.
Substantially true, with nuance: 19th-century mummer pranks and worse - including a murder committed by disguised mummers - provoked legislation against the custom in parts of Newfoundland, and it declined in some areas for a generation before its revival. CBC documents the dark side of the tradition, and the Mummers Festival retells the history, wigs and warrants together.
The story they tell
The exaggerated memory: a total, island-wide prohibition on Christmas fun. The documented reality was a legal crackdown on masking and disguised house-visiting after specific incidents - and the custom outlived the law.
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
