A century has passed since the iconic Titanic rammed an iceberg and sank 153 kilometers south of Cape Race, Newfoundland. Although subtitled ‘Stories From The Coast That Sank The Titanic’, author Robert C. Parsons does not highlight that particular wreck ...
January 9, 2012 - 9 h 00
Hands up, those of you who know Dr. Wilfred Grenfell imported a herd of Lapland reindeer to Newfoundland back in 19-ought-something-or-other? That’s what I thought, a veritable forest of waving arms.
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December 12, 2011 - 8 h 50
A word of caution children – Never complain about your mammy’s cooking! If you do gripe and groan there may come a day when you will be obliged, like the McGrew siblings, to eat humble pie.
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November 28, 2011 - 9 h 49
I didn’t have a whole lot of fun when I was a wee bay boy. Unfortunately – I s’pose – my family lived in a bungalow.
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October 18, 2011 - 1 h 00
‘Edge of Time’ from Breakwater Books answers a question some of you haven’t thought of asking. I confess. I thought of it only while reading the novel.
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October 4, 2011 - 8 h 08
Philately. Philatelist. Now there’re a couple of words you don’t get to use twice a week. Not unless you’re a stamp collector.
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September 20, 2011 - 1 h 00
"I have been blessed with a great love of music but not much of a voice."
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September 7, 2011 - 1 h 00
Despite the testimony of fading photos in the family album, it’s almost impossible for children to imagine their grannies as younger women.
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August 23, 2011 - 8 h 44
My birth was squeezed in between the initial boom of the atomic bomb and Newfoundland’s hitching up with the rest of Canada.
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August 9, 2011 - 8 h 39
Hands up those of you who remember Florence Nightingale, ‘the Lady with the Lamp’.
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