Ella Manuel visits the Woody Point clinic, where she hears about jannying, the old yuletide tradition of visiting homes in disguise. She recounts the story of John Charles Roberts’ seed potatoes and their connection with the Scots of Cape Breton. As winter approaches, the weather turns rough.
In this final episode of the "Down to Sally's Cove" podcast, Ella Manuel comments on some of the odd phrases and strange words she came across in her travels around Newfoundland. Most, but not all, are now clearly explained in the magisterial Dictionary of Newfoundland English.
In this episode Ella Manuel recalls ice-boating on Burnt Bay off Lewisporte in the 1920s, and how her friend Nancy met a "bear" while crossing the Bay on the winter ice.
Ella Manuel tells a story about a young sleeveen from Baker's Brook who was forever causing trouble in the woods camp where he worked.
Many are the stories told around Newfoundland and Labrador about goats and rams possessed of special powers and inclined to mad antics. Here is one that Aunt Jenny, who lived in Bloomfield many years ago, told Ella Manuel about a hymn-singing goat.
Uncle John tells the young Ella Manuel a spooky story from the Bay of Exploits.
In this first episode of the final season (“Ghosts and Dirty Tricks") ,Ella Manuel recalls a memorable Guy Fawkes night when she was a young girl in Lewisporte in the 1920 s.
Here Ella Manuel recalls a visit to Newfoundland 170 years ago of an American ship loaded with dignitaries come to see what should have been the laying of the first telegraph cable to Nova Scotia.
Here Ella recalls an old salt named Will Barnes. Though she never met him in life, his memoir of wild exploits at sea delighted her.
During the long history of Arctic exploration, of expeditions that disappeared and of the many attempts to find them, one in particular stands out for its connection with Captain Isaac Bartlett of Brigus. Here is Ella Manuel's re-telling of the rescue of shipwreck survivors from southward-drifting Greenland ice floes.
This story was first told by Neil Dewar himself, and has been repeated in several recent books. Dewar's experiences remind us of the terrible conditions that faced those who two centuries ago survived shipwreck on the empty coast of northern Newfoundland. It is a tale of horror, suffering and courage, of compassion and survival.
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