Folklore Magazine - Autumn 2003

Poetry:

Reunion - by Jean Reinhardt
Home Town Care - by Jean Reinhardt
Conservators at St. Victor's Petroglyphs - by Marion Beck
Summer 1988 - by Maisie Sutherland
Winter Black and White - by Marion Young

Features:

The Melfort Fair - 1939 - by Dorothy S. Armstrong
Pulling sow thistles afforded 35¢ to spend all day at the fair.

The Night We Dyed the Windsock - by Kay Parley
Alf Butterley, a retired RCAF pilot and his adventures flying for Grest Motors Flying Service in Humboldt.

Gates of Glory - by Shirley Lomheim
The history of the Memorial Gates at the University of Saskatchewan.

Old Buildings of Eatonia - by William Wardill
Memories of the special people associated with buildings in the community of Eatonia.

Wheels of Our Past - by Norman Roebuck
An essay on how the wheel in many forms, built the province.

Calhoun Horses for Hire - by Ruth Jeeves
The author's history with Mr. Calhoun's horses, located in a stable on Broad Street, horse show experiences and her care for horses of prominent Regina citizens.

The Day it Rained Fire - by Joan Soggie
A remarkable tale of 'rain of fire' that turned an entire Young Dog encampment into ash and was reported by Isaac Cowie and Norbert Walsh.

Saskatchewan Grapes? - by Evelyn Banks
Harrison's Greenhouse in Carnduff provided a Beta grapevine slip that continues to produce fruit regardless of Saskatchewan weather.

Uncle Billy - by Peggy (Hayes) Looby
William Squires from Bjorkdale fought with the 44th Cameron Highlanders in World War I and volunteered in World War II in the Veteran's Guard.

Two Shops on Broadway - by Jean Frydenlund
The author's father John P. Allwood, operated a harness shop on Broadway Avenue in Saskatoon and met her mother, Dorothy Ruth Avery, who worked and later operated a confectionery store a few doors north on the same block.

Raising Chickens - by Vera Ellaschuk
The business of hatching chicks, raising pullets and then dispatching old hens.

The Loft - by Victor Carl Friesen
A young boy's imaginative playtime in the barn's hayloft.

Starting School - by Russ Stewart
The author's eagerness to start school at age six versus the boredom of staying home another winter with his much younger siblings.

Book Review of Staying Alive - by Ruth Hamson
Jean Reinhardt reviews this book about the wilderness trek George Cornell and Scott Pitzer undertook in northern Alberta in 1905.

Depression Ingenuity - by Jack Driedger
Reuben Epp invented a device to harvest chokecherries by combing them off branches.

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