SARNOFF & EINSTEIN

SARNOFF and EINSTEIN   Bill Whelan   2026 01 26 Late in January of 1911 Captain Baxter Barbour, commanding the steamship Fogota, sighted a herd of seals, numbering in the hundreds of thousands, crossing Trinity Bay on their way north to give birth on the whelping ice, which was coming south to meet them.  Bowring’s…

Freemasons Never Revulge

Moses Bursey went to Carbonear from his home in Old Perlican to join the sealing fleet. The year was probably 1873, or thereabouts. He was 18 years of age.   He wanted to go sealing again. Amongst the fine fleet in Carbonear harbor was the brig Thomas Ridley, a pure sailing vessel, not a steamship.   Bursey…