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!

 

 

From the ArchivesCanada 150

Sending Up Kites

BY Matthew Hollett

NEWFOUNDLAND QUARTERLY was founded in 1901, the same year Marconi flew a 500-foot kite on Signal Hill and intercepted the first trans-Atlantic wireless transmission. The second-oldest magazine in Canada, NQ began as “a literary magazine of interest to Newfoundlanders at home and abroad,” which is not far off the way it describes itself today, as “a cultural journal of Newfoundland and Labrador.” That’s a remarkable persistency of purpose over 116 years.