Growing up and Growing older on Random Island
In rural Newfoundland, store bought anything in earlier days was rare. People fended for themselves, and their neighbours, and as I’ve mentioned before, trades of things were common. Store bought alcohol was as well rarer than now. People made their own home brewed beer with their own recipes, not the kits like we used. I […]
Back home, when someone went astray, or got disoriented, the old folks would say they were fairy led. As in led astray by the fairies. Well there were no fairies involved in this story, but we were definitely astray! Bakeapples, or as they are known in some parts, cloud berries, are a favorite back home. […]
The oldfolks would say, there’ll be lots of bakeapples if the lightning don’t get em! July, whether there’s any truth to it or not, or just superstition or coincidence, is an important month in determining the yield of some berries. Obviously a late frost is likely to kill the young forming berries, but we also […]
Gravel Roads
The Bus Shelter Social Center