Throwback to the Fireside Yarn published in the September 1998 issue of Downhome Magazine. A Lost Child by Edith Burrage A very long time ago in the early 1800s, there lived a man named Michael Howley. Mr. Howley was a very distinguished gentleman, and owned all the land on the road side by the…
Throwback to the Fireside Yarn published in the July 1998 issue of Downhome Magazine. Death Tokens and the Strange Case of Mrs. Dower by Dale G. Jarvis Newfoundland has a great tradition of what are known as death tokens. A death token is where a person becomes aware, through some paranormal means, that a…
Throwback to the Fireside Yarn published in the October 1996 issue of Downhome Magazine. The Strange Tale of the Bristol Hope From the book Ghost Stories from Newfoundland Folklore by Alice Lannon and Mike McCarthy. This unexplained event at Harbour Breton occurred in the spring of 1867, and involved a ship belonging to the Newman…
There was no way three strangers could possibly appear from nowhere at the whaling station. Yet here they were. On May 20, 1916, Ernest Shackleton, Frank Arthur Worsley and Tom Crean, exhausted and freezing, had staggered into isolated Stromness – a whaling station on the northern coast of South Georgia Island in the South Atlantic….
The phrase tough as a two-dollar steak comes to mind when referring to commercial fisherman turned survivalist and television star William Larkham Jr. The William’s Harbour native outlasted the field of ten competitors to walk away the sole survivor of the popular reality series Alone, which dropped competitors north of the Arctic Circle to battle…
Kent Brown and Donny Love have long shared a passion for Newfoundland and Labrador, one that has only deepened since filming their popular television show, Adventures Unknown. “You would think that we would have to move on from Newfoundland because we’ve done so much here, but we found that there are endless things to do,…
