Get cozy and cuddly this Valentine’s Day evening, with Newfoundland Quarterly!

January 2021

Join us in person, or online via Facebook Live, for an intimate evening of local music, writing, and hot cocoa & cookies at the Battery Cafe. We’ll also be drawing for our 2020 subscription prize, an original painting by Jean Claude Roy.

Our writer is Cynthia Boyd, and our musical guest is Matthew Hornell.

To attend in person, please register here:
https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07ehjeovd06100e71d&oseq=&c=&ch=

You don’t need to register for the livestream: just head to our Facebook page during the event to join us. If you can’t attend in person, never fear, you can still pick up a cookie and cocoa in advance of the livestream! Just stop by the Battery Cafe anytime during open hours on February 14th.

This event (in-person and online) is free, and all are welcome!

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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.