By Nicola Ryan It’s blowing a gale on Signal Hill. Clouds scuttle across the sunny November sky. It’s windy enough to wrench the door off the car, to blow the hat off your head. It churns whitecaps in George’s Pond. Folks pass by in winter coats and hats, and I’m in a bathing suit. I’m…
By Pam Pardy When Harbour Mille, Fortune Bay’s Lucas Pike decided to climb Mount Kilimanjaro, it wasn’t for adventure or recognition. It was for love and to honour his mother, Joan Pike, who passed away in July 2021 following a battle with brain cancer. “I knew that climbing Mount Kilimanjaro would challenge me in many…
By Gord Follett Never have I put as much pre-season scouting and effort into a moose hunt as I did for the 2025 season. Each holding an either-sex licence for MMA (Moose Management Area) 35 – St. John’s – Tony Vinnicombe and I began mid-July – in between salmon fishing trips – hiking to…
By Dennis Flynn Linda White, of the Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador Archives and Special Collections, displays the first issue of “The Greenspond Letter,” next to the most recent edition. The gap between the two entails colourful characters, remarkable reminiscences, phenomenal photographs, and spectacular stories covering more than 30 years. “It’s been only me…
We may not be the North Pole, but we here at Downhome like to think we have a link to the big guy in the red suit. Earlier this fall, our team called on kids and kids-at-heart to submit their letters to Santa, and boy, did you deliver! Our mailbags were overflowing! This is final…
By Anna Dwyer When a minor hockey team from St. John’s got trounced by New Brunswick players in Moncton in 1971, one parent’s plan for a rebound created a community legacy. Young hockey dad David Riche was so impressed by the Moncton facilities that he returned home determined to build an arena. Despite the…
We may not be the North Pole, but we here at Downhome like to think we have a link to the big guy in the red suit. Earlier this fall, our team called on kids and kids-at-heart to submit their letters to Santa, and boy, did you deliver! Our mailbags were overflowing! Stay tuned…
We may not be the North Pole, but we here at Downhome like to think we have a link to the big guy in the red suit. Earlier this fall, our team called on kids and kids-at-heart to submit their letters to Santa, and boy, did you deliver! Our mailbags were overflowing! Stay tuned in…
By Dillon Collins There’s nothing quite like a home-cooked meal, and few do it better than Bonita Hussey. “For me, it’s all about bringing out those recipes. I never really thought in a million years that my homemade bread recipe was going to turn into hundreds of recipes available online,” shares the Upper Island Cove…
By Linda Browne The stockings are hung by the chimney (or electric fireplace) with care, Nan’s in the kitchen mixing up the Christmas slush, and the dustbuster’s going full tilt as you try in vain to keep the floor clear of all that tinsel. Love it or loathe it, there’s nothing like those sparkling…
