By Dorothy Bowering Robinson In 2003, my husband Francis and I flew from Boston to St John’s to see where both my grandparents had been born and lived until they emigrated to the U.S. in the 1920s. My grandmother and her family lived at French’s Cove, Bay Roberts while my grandfather was across the causeway…
A few years ago I visited two friends who were shearing their sheep. They had the sheep up on the table and asked me if I could come and help them. I said yes, what do you need me to do? They asked if I could hold the sheep sack, so I said yes. They…
By: H. Joseph Seward Wolfville, Nova Scotia It’s Christmas Eve 2023, and I am thinking about Christmas’s past. This is an account of how I spent Christmas in 1941 in Southport, a small outport in Trinity Bay North, Newfoundland. I was six years old. My two siblings, Marie and Garfield, are four and two, respectively….
By Nicola Ryan Christmas is a time of warmth, togetherness, and celebration with loved ones. However, for many soldiers serving overseas, far from family and the comforts of home, the festive season can be tough. Kelly Luffman, a retired military veteran with 25 years of service, understands this better than most. After experiencing the challenges…
Let’s make a Christmas arrangement using mostly foraged and recycled materials. I like the natural look, but I also like to reduce my consumption of things that will be thrown away at the end of the holidays. Here’s a step-by-step of the greens and branches that I cut on my property with a few photos…
By: Dillon Collins We all have sounds, sights and smells that tether us to the holiday season. The albums that blanket the moments, the lights that brighten the gatherings, the aromas that transport us through space and time. But what would happen if you become a part of that holiday fabric? An underlined etching on…
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,…
By Nicola Ryan When spring’s sunrays slowly return each year, the forests, hills, bogs and meadows around us burst into a flourish of plants and wildflowers. Bright irises appear in marshes, tiny heathers bloom on rocky hillsides, and the wild diversity of Newfoundland and Labrador’s plant life is on display. Showy or small, colourful or…
