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.
Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon
France, 25 km off Newfoundland - baguettes, euros, and a very French harbor.
Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon is a French territorial collectivity off Newfoundland's south coast, the last remnant of France's once-vast North American empire. About 6,000 people, mostly on Saint-Pierre island, live in a French-speaking community using the euro, with French administration, bakeries and bistros facing a North Atlantic harbour. Reached by ferry from Fortune or by air, it is a genuine change of country within sight of Newfoundland.
The story they tell
Islanders will tell you Al Capone shipped whisky through Saint-Pierre during Prohibition - and that much is documented history; the taller Rum Row tales grow in the retelling.
How to get there
Ferry from Fortune on the Burin Peninsula (90 minutes) — bring a passport; a day covers the museum, the island of Miquelon by boat, and an unhurried French lunch.
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
