Our Summer issue is here!

BY NQ

June 2018

Summer issue, 2018.

Summer is here, and so is another issue of Newfoundland Quarterly!

This time, we’re exploring the idea of composition: we’re putting things and ideas together, seeing how one concept, stitch or journey looks beside another, and peering through the lense of connection.

As always, there is plenty of great art, from the curiosly lively still life by James Miller on our cover, to a Q and A and portfolio with painter Rodney Mercer.

A silk sampler embroidered with a striking and macabre image stitched by hand early in the 19th century leads Cynthia Boyd to learn more about Ellie Shea, the talented actress and society woman behind the needlework.

Dave Quinton takes us to South America, by way of Fogo Island, to learn the incredible story of Eliza Downer, a Newfoundlander who became a sheep rancher in Patagonia after her mother married a sailor.

There’s plenty more along with that, but to see it all, you’ll need to pick up your own copy of our summer issue, available at shops across NL. Want to make sure you never miss an issue? Information about subscribing is here.

Happy summer!

 

 

History

Is a seal a fish?

We’ve often heard that none less than the Pope, or a pope, or the Bishop, or a bishop, decreed that seals were fish – not meat – opening a food…

Fiction

NORTHERN DETACHMENT

BY Clancy Margaret

The wind was still, but the cold was biting all the same. Stepping outside made her sinuses burn and her eyes water. She brushed the snow off the seat of her snowmobile—a mid-nineties Ski-Doo, always giving her trouble. She surveyed the town as she waited for the engine to warm up. It’s squat vinyl sided homes glowed amidst the dim winter daytime. Snowmobile tracks crisscrossed on the road but not a person was in sight. She checked her handheld GPS. The coordinates lined up with somewhere northwest, about a forty-five minute ride under the blanket of dark. There were no stars today. It was always cloudy.