Roughing It<br /> <br /> Back in my youth in NL in the 1940s picnicking often involved roughing it. This photo, taken on Labour Day, 1947, shows my wife's family (Shute) enjoying a mug up in a gravel pit on the Cabot Highway, after a family berry picking outing. (L to R): brother Glynn, mother Beatrice, my wife Marie (Cornick), her sister Ernestine (Jones), and father Ernest Shute (Sr.). Marie's father was a plastering contractor (Shute &amp; Sons), and the family often took friends and neighbours in their pickup truck on such outings on the weekends. The pickup was fitted with long benches each side, and equipped with a tarpaulin in case it rained. No such things as fast food outlets or even picnic tables in those days, and gravel pits were the order of the day, but in spite of that we all enjoyed ourselves. How times have changed.<br /> <br /> John Cornick<br /> Halifax, Nova Scotia   Submitted By: John Cornick