The Storeloft

02/05/2024

http://www.ichblog.ca/2010/05/buy-broom-in-may-and-you-will-sweep.html

I'm interviewing my mom for a folklore project and searched superstitions and then beliefs on your site. I'd never heard "buy a broom in May, sweep your family away" but it was one she mentioned. Her fathers family is from Lower Island Cove but her mom is from Quebec. Thought it was funny to come ac...

13/04/2024

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A century creates some scrumptious stories. ❤️ Thank you to Ancel Moss for submitting his story! Share your unique Purity story and qualify for a chance to WIN PURITY FOR A YEAR, just submit here: https://purity.nf.ca/share-your-story/

16/03/2024

On This Date in 1898: The Newfoundland Sealing Fleet was two two days into the Annual Harvest, and already jinxed with bad luck and 'tight ice'

Wednesday March 16: The sealers were more than eager to get back on the ice. Captain Barbour searched for the missing seals, but only one flag was found with a thousand seals. They were certain that the panned seals did not all blow away, but were no doubt stolen by the crew of another steamer (Capt. Abe and the Aurora were presumed to have been the 'culprits'). For the rest of the week the Greenland steamed northwest for thirty miles, cruising about killing seals and hauling them to the boat.

Among them STEPHEN SQUIRE, his brother ENOS SQUIRE, GEORGE
BURDEN, WILLIAM HANDCOCK and RICHARD "Dickie" HUNTER. All of Salvage. And a CHARLES RALPH, of Flat Islands.

01/03/2024

The long and hungry month of March - I have been re-posting this link every tear since 2018. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.527209364084595

An unapologetic look back at a way of life

22/02/2024

Nice read - If I didn't live here I would definately visit :-)

While simple, slow summers are extinct elsewhere, they’re alive and well on Newfoundland’s Eastport Peninsula. To find them, follow the Road to the Beaches.

22/01/2024

Jim D**e interview Feb. 13, 2023

09/05/2023

Local Author sets first novel on Eastport Peninsula

“I remember loving him so much it hurts. Who is he?” This is the question Jennifer Eveleigh asks herself when her memory partially returns and she remembers loving a man who is a stranger to her. What makes it worse is she is living with Jase Collins, and she loves him too! Jennifer...

09/05/2023

Local Author, writing as Meghan Lane, sets first novel on the Eastport Peninsula.

“I remember loving him so much it hurts. Who is he?” This is the question Jennifer Eveleigh asks herself when her memory partially returns and she remembers loving a man who is a stranger to her. What makes it worse is she is living with Jase Collins, and she loves him too! Jennifer...

16/03/2023

On This Date in 1898: The Newfoundland Sealing Fleet was two days into the Annual Harvest, and already jinxed with bad luck and 'tight ice'

Wednesday March 16: The sealers were more than eager to get back on the ice. Captain Barbour searched for the missing seals, but only one flag was found with a thousand seals. They were certain that the panned seals did not all blow away, but were no doubt stolen by the crew of another steamer (Capt. Abe and the Aurora were presumed to have been the 'culprits'). For the rest of the week the Greenland steamed northwest for thirty miles, cruising about killing seals and hauling them to the boat.

Among them STEPHEN SQUIRE, his brother ENOS SQUIRE, GEORGE BURDEN, WILLIAM HANDCOCK and RICHARD "Dickie" HUNTER; all of Salvage. And CHARLES RALPH, of Flat Islands.

Any night is a poor night to be caught on the ice; but look out your window - Sheila's Brush on the 'Front' is not fit for nothing but seals and protesters.

13/02/2023

Jim D**e Interview - Feb 13, 2023