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On Stands Now: Spring 2012, Volume 104 Number 4
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In this issue ... Fauna
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Feature Articles ...
Cut Cake 2011, by
Mary Pratt. Oil on canvas, 24" x 36"
Victor Croucher:
The Boy with the Giant Cod Fish By Darren Hynes
This photo of the little boy framed by two giant cod fish is iconic, not only in Newfoundland and the Maritimes, but across Canada. The boy is almost never identified but his descendants know him, as the photo is part of their family history... [ Read Online ]
Why Do People Paint Pictures? By Mary Pratt
Why do people paint pictures? Why bother, when the world lies
before us - beautiful itself? I don’t know, but painting pictures is something I love to do. Drawing, colour brush work, perspective, design. How to render the real world (or what we usually call ‘reality’). How to put what the eye sees onto a flat surface...
Bright Lights and Blue Steps: Theatre at John Arnalukjuak High School in Arviat, Nunavut By Keith Collier
You could tell it was going to be a sold-out night. It was nearly show time, the Blue Steps were almost full, and people were still lining up to see the John Arnalukjuak High School production Playhouse of the Damned, a Halloween comedy variety show. Finally the director gives the go-ahead. The school choir opens the show, and then Gusette the Ghoul bursts through the curtain to do her introduction, laced with puns and punctuated by her maniacal laughter...
The Bank Robbery of 1894: Another Perspective on NL’s First Black Monday By Roger Bill
Century-old Supreme Court documents are stored in cardboard boxes in the Provincial Archives. Ask for records about the Bank Crash of 1894 and you will be given Box #84. Inside are photocopies of indictments recorded in flowing pen and ink handwriting. They read fraud and conspiracy, and more
fraud and conspiracy...
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