Forget-me-nots are traditionally associated with the Royal Newfoundland Regiment.
"We Will
Remember Them."
Photo: Todd Boland
In this issue:
Feature Articles ...
An Appreciation of Lazy Beds by John Omohundro
Residents of the Great Northern Peninsula face many natural, technical, and economic obstacles to growing food. Nevertheless, gardens have been a fixture of rural life since settlement began there in the eighteenth century...[ read online ]
Arborealis and the Art of Revelation by Mark Callanan Arborealis, a collaboration between Thaddeus Holownia
and his friend and colleague, poet Peter Sanger,
features 31 of Holownia's photographs taken at
various locations in and around Gros Morne
National Park, interspersed with 30 interconnected
poems by Sanger. It is at once an object d'art and a
chronicle of two intertwined journeys.
Time, Prism & Light: The Paintings of Julia Pickard by Kathleen Winter
With Julia Pickard, paint starts out as a potent substance. Yes, she often works in transparent washes of colour, but the paint is more than that. Pickard talks about laying it on paper, glass or canvas as if the paint has intelligence.
Hola Hosta! by Todd Boland
What foliage perennial grows equally well in full sun or deep shade, thrives in damp soil, resists insects and disease, crowds out weeds, improves with age and can serve as ground cover, in borders and rock gardens or as a dramatic, even tropical, focus for the smallest space? Guess!
The French Naval Cemetery in Croque Harbour by Françoise Enguehard
Centuries ago, there were several French cemeteries across Newfoundland – some for
the common folks, the fishermen and beachboys who worked the cod on land during
the fishing season, others for the naval officers who were part of la Division Navale
de Terre-Neuve. Today, only one survives.
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