Hungry Month of March Mug Up at Marjorie Mews, March 12th

Join us for the final (for now) mug up storytelling session at the Marjorie Mews Library. We want your food memories! Tell us about jam-making, preserving food, root cellars, recipes, favourite (or least favourite) dishes, flipper pie, and the correct term for a bit of left-over bread dough fried up in a pan.  Do you have a memory of Jell-O salads with bits of things floating in the gelatine? Or a memory of the smell of fresh-baked bread? Come have a cup of tea, a treat or two, and trade your table-top tales!

Hosted by folklorist Dale Jarvis, Heritage NL

Thursday, March 12th
10am
Marjorie Mews Public Library 
12 Highland Drive, St. John's

This is a free event, all welcome.


photo:  Mrs. Janie (Herb) and Mrs. W. Milley with table full of bottled preserves. Item MG 63.2217, Item A 57-153 [ca. 1930]. International Grenfell Association fonds, The Rooms. 

Living Heritage Podcast Ep169 Weaving with Jessica McDonald

Jessica McDonald weaving on a loom. Photo courtesy of Jessica McDonald.

Jessica McDonald is a textile artist and researcher based in St. John’s, Newfoundland and a recent graduate of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Jessica creates her own textile art, teaches, and researches weaving and craft in Atlantic Canada. She is is currently creating a piece for the Arts and Culture Centre in St. John’s, Newfoundland while also working on a grant for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (also known as SHHRC), and preparing to teach with the Hand Weaver’s Guild of America in Knoxville, Tennessee this summer.


See more of Jessica's work here.

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The Living Heritage Podcast is about people who are engaged in the heritage and culture sector, from museum
professionals and archivists, to tradition bearers and craftspeople - all those who keep history alive at the
community level. The show is a partnership between HeritageNL and CHMR Radio.

Theme music is Rythme Gitan by Latché Swing.

Come Home Café: Celebrating St. Paddy's Day - Tilting Style

Come Home Café: Celebrating St. Paddy's Day - Tilting Style
Friday, March 6, 2020 at 7:30 PM
The Rooms, St. John's

Ticket information here

Join us as we celebrate St. Patrick's Day in true Tilting fashion. Tilting was originally founded by the French in the 17th century as a base for their transatlantic fishery, and eventually became a station for the English and Irish migratory fishery sometime after 1713.

By the 1770s, Tilting had become a predominantly Irish community, and the cultural milieu in which those early Irish thrived is seen today both in the material culture and vibrant oral traditions for which Tilting is so well known. Today, Tilting is registered as both a National Historic Site and Provincial Registered Heritage District.

Folklorist Dale Jarvis will interview community members as they share stories, music, and much more from their beloved town.

What is a Come Home Café?
A Come Home Café is a celebration of rural community life, culture, and history. You can think of it as a return, in spirit, to a home town. It is both a mini-reunion, and a way to share a taste of the unique culture of our local places with those who grew up elsewhere. Each Come Home Café will focus on a different, special Newfoundland and Labrador town, and includes stories, memories, music, and more. Whether you are returning home or coming from away, the Come Home Café has a spot saved for you!

This event is a partnership between Heritage NL, The Rooms, and the Tilting Expatriates Association.

Living Heritage Podcast Ep168 Tilting Expatriates Association with Winnie Hamilton

Winnie is president of the the Tilting Expatriates Association, a group of former citizens of Tilting, Fogo Island. Since 1983, the Association has served as a means of contact between members, worked to preserve the cultural heritage of Tilting, and provided a way to organize charitable assistance to present and former residents of Tilting. The Tilting Expatriates Association publishes a quarterly newsletter and annual magazine. 

Learn more about the Tilting Expatriates Association here.
Learn more about the Feile Tilting here, an event organized by the Tilting community.



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The Living Heritage Podcast is about people who are engaged in the heritage and culture sector, from museum
professionals and archivists, to tradition bearers and craftspeople - all those who keep history alive at the
community level. The show is a partnership between HeritageNL and CHMR Radio.
Theme music is Rythme Gitan by Latché Swing.

A rare look inside the St. John's Tuberculosis Sanatorium.

This week, we were in North River helping scan photos and recipes as part of an ongoing community project. One of the participants, Sylvia Hurley, had a great collection of family photos, including some which were taken at or inside the tuberculosis sanatorium in St. John's. They give an interesting peek inside "The San" at Christmastime, decorated for the season.  The photos are undated, and the people in the photographs are unknown. Comment or contact us if you have any information!

The idea of a sanatorium in St. John's was supported by Governor Sir William MacGregor in 1908, and meetings on the tuberculosis crisis led to the formation of the Newfoundland Association for the Prevention of Consumption. A tuberculosis camp for women was established near Mundy Pond in 1911, but the outbreak of the First World War put plans for a larger facility on hold until 1916-17. After the Second World War, drugs to fight tuberculosis improved, and by 1972, all the sanatoria beds in the province had been closed.

If you have photos or memories of the sanatorium, email dale@heritagenl.ca

UPDATE: 27 April 2020

Christina Penney send on this photo, also from the san, featuring her great aunt. She writes,

She's the patient in the bed on the left. Her name was Christina May Alexander, born in Bonavista in 1915, and died in the Sanitorium in St. John's in 1942 (age 27). Looks like another Christmas photo, but I'm not sure the exact year, but probably early 1940s.

Can you identify any of the other people?

UPDATE: 1 May 2020

Robert "Bob" Francis sent us three more photos, and some more photo-identification work. He writes,

The first picture us of my mom, Lucy who was in the San in the mid 1950s. The second picture is of my mom and her sister in law, Dorothy who was also in the San. The third picture is of myself, on the left, age 5, the other person is unknown.

If you have a memory of the sanatorium, post below, or if you have old photos, send them to me at dale@heritagenl.ca and I'll add them here.

Living Heritage Podcast Ep167 The General Protestant Cemetery with Suzanne Sexty

Suzanne Sexty has been researching the St. John's General Protestant Cemetery and the people buried there since her retirement in 2001. She first moved to Newfoundland in 1968 to work at the Henrietta Harvey Library at Memorial University, and has worked at different libraries in the province and the United States. Suzanne has also recently co-authored a book titled Long Overdue: SS Beverly (1885-1918) about a mercantile ship and crew lost during The First World War. She chats with fellow taphophile Dale Jarvis about the history of the cemetery, and some of its storied inhabitants.

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The Living Heritage Podcast is about people who are engaged in the heritage and culture sector, from museum
professionals and archivists, to tradition bearers and craftspeople - all those who keep history alive at the
community level. The show is a partnership between HeritageNL and CHMR Radio.
Theme music is Rythme Gitan by Latché Swing. Photo by Krissy Holmes/CBC.

North River Ascension New Horizons - bringing together seniors, youth, and food stories! #FolkloreThursday

We are working on a fun new cookbook project in cooperation with the Town of North River and Ascension Collegiate in Bay Roberts. We've been meeting at the highschool, where we have been having intergenerational chats about food memories, and the young people have been teaching the older people how to use their tablets, laptops, and phones. 

The next step will be to get the students doing some oral history and folklore interviews with the participants about their food stories and memories, digitizing some old photographs and cookbooks, and then pulling everything together into a collection of stories that will be part cookbook and part local history book. 

The group has started a Facebook page here:  North River Ascension New Horizons

The town will be hosting a recipe and photo scanning event on Tuesday, Feb 11th, starting at 10am.  Bring your old family recipes, those cocoa-stained cookbooks with all the notes, and your old family photo albums.  Have a cup of tea, and we'll scan them for you right there, and you can take your materials home again immediately!  We'd love to have a photo and recipe from each North River family if possible. 

Living Heritage Podcast Ep166 The Photographic Historical Society with Edith Cuerrier

Edith Cuerrier is a French Canadian who grew up near Montreal and has been living in Newfoundland for almost two decades.  Edith has a background in photography and photo preservation and has worked as an archivist, project cataloger, and military photographer. She served in the Royal Canadian Air Force for 22 years before earning a Bachelor of Arts in Archaeology from Memorial University in 2006. In 2009, Edith completed a Master’s in photo preservation and collection management at Ryerson University. She works at The Rooms Provincial Archives in St. John’s. In 2016, Edith founded the Photographic Historical Society of Newfoundland.

You can join the society or learn more on the Photographic Historical Society on their Facebook page.

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The Living Heritage Podcast is about people who are engaged in the heritage and culture sector, from museum professionals and archivists, to tradition bearers and craftspeople - all those who keep history alive at the community level. The show is a partnership between HeritageNL and CHMR Radio. Theme music is Rythme Gitan by Latché Swing.

Multigenerational Mug Up - When I Was Your Age. Feb 13th

Heritage NL and Marjorie Mews Public Library are hosting a special Multigenerational Mug Up, entitled, "When I Was Your Age." We would love you to bring a memory about your youth, and to bring a friend, someone younger or older than yourself. It is a memory-sharing session for all ages, to encourage the flow of stories and memories across generations. Bring your mother, your auntie, your grandchild, your nephew, all welcome!

10am
Feb 13th
Marjorie Mews Public Library
12 Highland Drive, St. John's

Living Heritage Podcast Ep165 The Tidal Wave Tsunami with Carl Slaney

In this episode, Carl Slaney of Laurentian Legacy Tours talks about the new tour he is developing for the summer of 2020. Its a guided historical hiking tour about the Tidal Wave, a tsunami that devastated St. Lawrence, Newfoundland and surrounding communities in November of 1929. Carl shares residents personal accounts of the earthquake and tsunami, as well as the effects this event had in the years that followed.


Learn more about Laurentian Legacy Tours here.

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The Living Heritage Podcast is about people who are engaged in the heritage and culture sector, from museum professionals and archivists, to tradition bearers and craftspeople - all those who keep history alive at the community level. The show is a partnership between HeritageNL and CHMR Radio. Theme music is Rythme Gitan by Latché Swing.

Living Heritage Podcast Ep164 The Harry Hibbs Exhibit is Coming to Bell Island

Linda Hickey, Chair of the Bell Island Heritage Society, tells us all about a new exhibit on Newfoundland accordion player Harry Hibbs coming to the Bell Island Museum on July 25, 2020. We talk about the exhibit, Hibbs' influence on Newfoundland musicians and listeners, and discover that accordion music is alive and well on the island today.

Image of Harry Hibbs from Heritage Newfoundland & Labrador.

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The Living Heritage Podcast is about people who are engaged in the heritage and culture sector, from museum professionals and archivists, to tradition bearers and craftspeople - all those who keep history alive at the community level. The show is a partnership between HeritageNL and CHMR Radio. Theme music is Rythme Gitan by Latché Swing.

Winter Memories - A Mug Up (with free hot chocolate!) at Marjorie Mews, Jan 9th.

What are your winter memories of sliding, skating, ice fishing, new winter boots, or knitted mittens? Come tell us! You bring a memory, we'll brew up the hot chocolate!

The Mug Up Series is an informal story sharing session hosted by folklorist Dale Jarvis, where people gather, have a snack, and share memories. The event is free and open to anyone!

10am
Thursday, January 9th
Marjorie Mews Public Library.
12 Highland Drive, St. John's,

Chapter by HeritageNL authors in new book - Traditional Food: Sharing Experiences from the Field

The International Information and Networking Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region has recently published the book Living Heritage Series – Traditional Food in collaboration with the ICHNGO Forum’s #HeritageAlive. The Living Heritage Series is a serial publication on regional/national transmission and safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage elements. It focuses on a different topic each time, discussing the relevant intangible cultural heritage of various regions to raise the visibility of cultural diversity emphasized by the UNESCO.

Living Heritage Series-Traditional Food showcases creative and historical traditional food from around the world through contributions from 16 writers in various countries, including a chapter by Dale Jarvis and Terra Barrett of Heritage NL.

You can download the book as a pdf right here.

Events this week: Christmas Memories, Carols, and Mummers

It is a busy week for intangible cultural heritage in St. John's!

This week:

Mummer Memories Mug Up at Marjorie Mews!

THU, 12 DEC AT 10:00

Marjorie Mews Public Library · St. John's, NL

Cost: Free Event!

Christmas is right around the corner, and that means lots of holiday memories. But is Christmas today exactly what it was years ago? Some of the older traditions are changing, perhaps, and there is always the danger that the stories of yesteryear could vanish.  Don't be a Grinch, and help us save the traditions of Yuletide! We want your memories of mummers, jannies, hobby horses, year-end customs, and how you celebrated the full 12 Days of Christmas. You bring a memory, we'll bring the syrup and jam jams! A free event, sponsored by the Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador, as part of its Memory Mug Up program.

Facebook event listing

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The Heart's Delight - Islington Christmas Carols

THU, 12 DEC AT 2:30 pm

The Rooms

Where: Level 3 Atrium

Cost: Free Event!

If you grew up in Heart's Delight - Islington, your Christmas memories might include waking up late at night to the sound of community men reverently singing two ancient carols, passed down for over a century, in the darkened porch of your home. Other communities in the area, such as Cavendish and Green's Harbour, also once practiced a version of this house-to-house caroling, but today the tradition remains strongest in Heart's Delight-Islington. Join folklorist Dale Jarvis in conversation with the local tradition bearers who are working, and singing, to keep this old Christmas custom shining bright.

The Rooms event listing

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Mummers Parade!

SAT, 14 DEC AT 2PM

The Lantern

35 Barnes Road

Cost: Free Event!

Haul on Mudder's sized 42 bra and get your pillow-stuffed arse down to the Mummers Parade! Let's celebrate our culture and keep our traditions alive. All mummers 'llowed in!

Full details on the Mummers Festival website

Heart’s Delight - Islington Christmas Carols, live at The Rooms this Thursday!

“The Moon Shines Bright, And The Stars Give Light”
The Heart’s Delight - Islington Christmas Carols
The Rooms, St. John's
2:30pm, Thursday, Dec 12th

If you grew up in Heart’s Delight - Islington, your Christmas memories might include waking up late at night to the sound of community men reverently singing two ancient carols, passed down for over a century, in the darkened porch of your home. Other communities in the area, such as Cavendish and Green's Harbour, also once practiced a version of this house-to-house caroling, but today the tradition remains strongest in Heart’s Delight-Islington. Join folklorist Dale Jarvis (and a busload of carolers) in conversation with the local tradition bearers who are working, and singing, to keep this old Christmas custom shining bright.

Cost is free, In partnership with the Mummers Festival

photo courtesy Geraldine Legge.

Heritage Update Newsletter: Good Design, Ruins, Skills, and Christmas Memories

In this edition of the Heritage Update Newsletter: Executive Director Jerry Dick on good design, and the heritage of ruins; Michael Philpott on bringing heritage trades education to NL; our Memory Mug Up returns to Marjorie Mews Library for Christmas; and the Heart's Delight-Islington Christmas carolers will visit The Rooms in St. John's.

Download the newsletter as a pdf here

Living Heritage Podcast Ep163 Clarence Snook, Hant's Harbour Telegrapher and Postmaster

Mr. Clarence Snook was born in Hant’s Harbour on Hallowe'en Day, October 31, 1926.  He was an only child, the son of Alfred and Hazel Snook. As a boy, he was interested in Morse telegraphy, and studied under an ex-school teacher over one winter to learn the skill. The following spring, when postmistress Miss Melina Critch took ill, he was asked if he could fill in. “Well I’ll try to get along with it,” he said, and he did, for 11 years.

In this episode, we talk about his memories of the Hant's Harbour Post Office, his work as a telegrapher, and his time as an RCAF aircraft spotter during the Second World War.



This past summer, intern Patrick Handrigan worked on some drawings and a report for some possible adaptive reuses for the old Hant's Harbour Post Office (see mockup photo below). You can look at Patrick's report here.

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The Living Heritage Podcast is about people who are engaged in the heritage and culture sector, from museum professionals and archivists, to tradition bearers and craftspeople - all those who keep history alive at the community level. The show is a partnership between HeritageNL and CHMR Radio. Theme music is Rythme Gitan by Latché Swing.

Mummers Festival 2019 is on the way!

The 2019 Mummers Festival runs November 30th to December 18th with events leading up to the Mummers Parade on Saturday, December 14th! Don’t just watch the Parade, be in it! Get yourself dressed up or come to our Rig Up an hour before the Parade to fashion yourself the perfect disguise.

The Parade ends at our Scuff ‘n’ Scoff party with live music, Purity syrup and sweets. The event will feature live music, so expect lots of hard stompin’.

If you really want to spice up your disguise this year, the Festival is hosting several different workshops: make an ugly stick, build a hobby horse, fashion yourself a box, bucket, or pillowcase mask.

There’s 13 events for you to choose from! Get your mummer on!

The Mummers Festival is still looking for volunteers for Parade Day, December 14th, 2019. We’re in need of parade marshals, set up and clean up squads, and more! Volunteers receive a fancy schmancy Festival t-shirt as a thank you. Sign up online by visiting mummersfestival.ca and click on the “Get Involved” link.

For more information and a full listing of events visit mummersfestival.ca

Do you have a memory of Muddy Hole, Shearstown?

Starting in the early 1800s, men from Mercer’s Cove and French's Coves visited the area bordering Bay Roberts and Spaniard’s Bay “chasing the wood” -- collecting winter firewood. As the area was more sheltered than the coast, some families started to overwinter there, returning to Bay Roberts in the spring. Eventually, they settled there permanently.

Some of the earliest family names of the Shearstown pioneers were Holmes, Earle, Hedderson, Badcock, Sparkes, Franey, French, Saunders, and Mercer.  Some settlers like Augustus Mercer worked in the fishery, while John and George Tetford set up a cooperage. The area was originally known as Ryan's Brook or The Gut, but in 1905, the name was changed to Shearstown in honour of the Reverend W.C. Shears.

During its early years, the most prosperous part of Shearstown was the section of the community known as Muddy Hole, which lies near the mouth of the Shearstown River. This was once a bustling trading place where people from Shearstown and its surrounding communities would go to buy supplies.

Do you have a memory of the section of Shearstown known as Muddy Hole? Heritage NL and the Town of Bay Roberts are working on a Virtual Museum Project, and any of your stories, photos, or memories of Muddy Hole are welcome!  You can email Dale Jarvis at dale@heritagenl.ca or call 1-888-739-1892 x2.

Rehearsing the Heart's Delight-Islington Christmas Carols (and some archival audio).

We've been doing some work to document and share the two traditional Christmas carols that were traditionally sung by men door-to-door on Christmas Eve in the community of Heart's Delight-Islington. The group above will be performing at The Rooms as part of the the afternoon Coffee and Culture session on December 12th.

We have a couple archival recordings of the carols, none of which are of exceptional audio quality, but they will give you an idea of the tune.

First up are two recordings from an audio tape entitled "Ht's. Delight-Is. Carolers 1970-1971" from the collection of Edwin Bishop.   Edwin writes,

"As far as I can recall I recorded it myself at my sister's house (Harry and Elva Morgan) on Northeast Side. I can’t recall most of the names but pretty sure Lewis Legge or Clayton Reid was the leader. My brother James and Jim Reid, Hedley Fost and Gilbert were most likely there."

Download version one as MP3
Download version two as MP3





Next up, in this recording, Joe Crocker, Jim Reid, Fred Fost of Heart's Delight-Islington sing the carols. Recorded early 1980s. Thanks to Shirley Crocker Rockwood for the copy of the recording.
Download the MP3 here

Living Heritage Podcast Ep162 Revitalizing the Heart's Delight-Islington Christmas Carols

In days past, Christmas Eve in Heart’s Delight-Islington would ring with the singing of  their own special Christmas carols. The tradition involved the door-to-door singing of two specific carols which had been passed down over the past century. Originally, they were sung by men, who would travel to every house in the community. Other communities in the area, such as Cavendish and Green's Harbour, also once sang a version of the carols, but the tradition remains strongest in Heart’s Delight-Islington.

The custom continues with some changes over time, but more work is needed to safeguard this very special local tradition.  In this podcast, we chat with Stan Reid and Howard Sooley, two long-time carolers who are working to ensure this tradition is carried on to the next generation.  We talk about the past and present of the tradition, and where they would like to see it in the future.

Note: On Dec 12th, as part of this year's Mummers Festival, The Rooms will be hosting an afternoon Coffee and Culture with participants from Heart's Delight-Islington. Facebook event here. Photo courtesy Geraldine Legge.

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The Living Heritage Podcast is about people who are engaged in the heritage and culture sector, from museum professionals and archivists, to tradition bearers and craftspeople - all those who keep history alive at the community level. The show is a partnership between HeritageNL and CHMR Radio. Theme music is Rythme Gitan by Latché Swing.

Living Heritage Podcast Ep161 We ❤ Craft Skill Sharing Series

With funding from New Horizons, the Anna Templeton Centre is proud to present the We ❤ Craft Skill Sharing Series - 10 tours, presentations, and workshops that showcase craft in and around St. John's. The events will facilitate the sharing of craft skills between seniors and their community, including other seniors, youth, and the general population.

The focus is not just on traditional Newfoundland and Labrador craft, but also adaptive and international craft and skills. There has been one event, a tour of the embroidery and silver of the Anglican Cathedral, where Joyce King gave a tour of the history and architecture of the Cathedral, Don Beaubier discussed the history and workmanship of some of the silver housed there, and Susan Furneaux discussed the embroidery on display, some of which was made locally by Bunty Severs.

Over November they will host a panel at the Quidi Vidi Village Plantation where three generations of knitters will demonstrate some methods for tricky and difficult techniques, and will take audience questions. At the end of November they will have three workshop on Iris folding, a Dutch technique of using scraps of paper, and because it is hosted by Sheila Ford, a quilter, scraps of fabric, to create beautiful images on cards.

Dr. Lisa Daly is the project organizer for We ❤ Craft, working with a board of women who are passionate about crafting. Lisa is also a member of the Heritage NL board, and has been working in heritage and tourism for almost two decades.

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The Living Heritage Podcast is about people who are engaged in the heritage and culture sector, from museum professionals and archivists, to tradition bearers and craftspeople - all those who keep history alive at the community level. The show is a partnership between HeritageNL and CHMR Radio. Theme music is Rythme Gitan by Latché Swing.

Living Heritage Podcast Ep160 Listening for La Llorona with Mariana Esquivel Suárez

Mariana Esquivel Suárez (@folklorette) is a Mexican graduate student at Memorial University’s Department of Folklore. She is currently writing her thesis on the legend of La Llorona (the weeping woman) as a symbol of protest in Mexico. Her academic research interests include supernatural folklore, folk religion, and the intersection of folklore and politics.  We talk about the origins of the La Llorona legend, and how it has changed and shifted over time.

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The Living Heritage Podcast is about people who are engaged in the heritage and culture sector, from museum professionals and archivists, to tradition bearers and craftspeople - all those who keep history alive at the community level. The show is a partnership between HeritageNL and CHMR Radio. Theme music is Rythme Gitan by Latché Swing.

Heritage NL goes Back to School - at the Marjorie Mews Library

Do you remember bringing splits to school for the fire, or being in a school play or concert? Did your school have indoor plumbing, or not? Did you take a school field trip to Bowring Park? Are you a retired teacher or educator? Or maybe you were the reason your teacher wanted to retire! We want to hear your memories!

On November 14th, Heritage NL folklorist Dale Jarvis is hosting a School Days Memory Mug up at the Marjorie Mews Public Library. You bring a memory of your schooldays, we’ll supply the tea and biscuits, and we will all have a chat. It’s free, open to everyone, and there won’t be a test at the end.

School Days Memory Mug Up
Thursday, November 14th, 10am
Marjorie Mews Public Library
12 Highland Drive, St. John's, NL A1A 3C4

Facebook event listing here


For more info:

Dale Jarvis
dale@heritagenl.ca
1-888-739-1892 x2

A Traditional Bonfire Night in Heart's Content - by Claude Rockwood

A Traditional Bonfire Fire

About a month or so before bonfire night a crowd of us, boys and girls ages 8-10, from the Northern Point would rush home from school every day and head for the woods. While the boys cut trees and boughs, the girls would drag them to the wide open field located up behind Uncle Albert and Aunt Lydia’s house (no relation). Believe it or not, but all this was done without grown-up supervision. Then we would pile them as high as we could pile them.

Bonfires could be seen all over the Harbour - Southern Cove, Rockwood’s Room, Rowe’s Bank, and Up the Backway. Now the big thing was to gather up as many boughs and trees as you could so you would have the biggest bonfire in the Harbour.

After the bonfire was over, we would all go to Uncle Albert and Aunt Lydia’s house  for a big scoff of pork and cabbage. For the scoff, we would all bring along some vegetables- cabbage, potatoes, carrot and, of course, each of us would have their own piece of salt meat. Aunt Lydia would supply scoff  vegetables from her own garden, as well. Everyone would sit around and have a fine old feed and chat about anything that came to mind. And you know, the smell of smoke from our clothes didn’t seem to bother them at all. I think Uncle Albert and Aunt Lydia were only too glad to be able to take part in the bonfire night with us children.

Bonfire night went on for several years until Aunt Lydia died in 1947.

This story was related to me, Claude Rockwood, by Mary (Mame) Burrage ( nee Piercey ) who grew up on the Northern Point, Heart's Content. Albert and Lydia Langer were my maternal grandparents.

Photo:  Bonfire Night, Porterville, Newfoundland, 2010, courtesy of Barry Porter. 

Living Heritage Podcast Ep159 Celebrating ICH in Jeonju, South Korea

In this podcast episode, guest host Katie Crane chats with Dale Jarvis of Heritage NL about his recent trip to the city of Jeonju, Korea. Dale talks about his experiences and impressions of Korea and the city of Jeonju, and about receiving the 2019 Jeonju International Award for Promoting Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH). While there, Jarvis also presented on NL heritage programs at the 2019 World Forum for Intangible Cultural Heritage, at the National Intangible Heritage Center (NIHC).

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The Living Heritage Podcast is about people who are engaged in the heritage and culture sector, from museum professionals and archivists, to tradition bearers and craftspeople - all those who keep history alive at the community level. The show is a partnership between HeritageNL and CHMR Radio. Theme music is Rythme Gitan by Latché Swing.