Theme: History
“A significant and rich part of this province’s history”: Joanne MacDonald and Mary Reid on their pioneering, insightful dive into disability rights
Can you tell us little about yourselves? We have both worked in the area of disability advocacy for over 40 years each. Joanne MacDonald, OC, ONL, LLD, is a three-time…
Bully boys and ‘turning the buoys’: it’s a pivotal date for the summer
The Royal St John’s Regatta is scheduled for Wednesday, August 7 – or, famously, maybe not. There are a lot of distinctive facts and singular traditions linked to the event:…
Missing: One Grandfather, near Ypres, 1918: Marie Stamp follows a RNR soldier’s footsteps
Travelling by train through the rolling farmland of Flanders’ fields, sweeping past small red-bricked towns and muddy furrows waiting for seed, the glint of sunlight on slim white slabs catches…
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…
Old Christmas Day
It’s been called one of the greatest short stories ever written: James Joyce‘s The Dead, set on The Feast of the Epiphany, opening as Gabriel Conroy and his wife, Gretta,…
Small, modest markers of love and respect: field stones in Newfoundland’s cemeteries, by Robyn S Lacy
When you walk through a cemetery in Newfoundland, you reach out your hand to brush through the tall grass or pick a partridgeberry that has grown plump, snuggled between the…