Like Sand Through the Hourglass…
January 2018
Like sand through the hourglass, so is the creative cycle of NQ. Our Spring issue copy deadline is just one month away…
The Southside Hills in History and Song
BY Matthew Hollett
I’M NOT SURE who first referred to them as the “Dear Old” Southside Hills, or if anyone still calls them that. Possibly the name went out of fashion when the huge oil tanks were built. But the nickname seems to have stuck for a while in the early 1900s, a curious term of affection for the imposing hillside that gives shape to St. John’s Harbour.
DO NOT CROSS | STATUS LINE
BY Meagan Musseau (art) and Shannon Webb-Campbell (text)
Quickly, we got talking about what it means to be fair-skinned, blue eyed and Indigenous.
A Grand Time: NL Music at the Irish Traditional Music Archive in Dublin
BY Marie Stamp
“O’Hara would eventually make hundreds of recordings of the stories and songs of the people he met in Newfoundland. He did not have to insist too much to coax them to take the mic. “Sing a song or hum a tune, do a dance or leave the room! That’s what they used to say,” he remembers of his time in Branch.”