Folklore Magazine - Spring 2003

Poetry:

Woodcutting Day
Sudden Storm
Brown Dog
The Outhouse Blues

Features:

The Shortcut
Tea leaves reading foreshadows a potentially life-threatening experience with a snowbank.

A Wartime Pie
Wartime rationing believed to the be reason for an interesting mincemeat pie at Christmas.

A Place in History
'Collecting' perhaps a natural instinct for Saskatchewan people which spawned many museums.

Cleaning Stove Pipes
The 'pleasures' of heating a home with an airtight tin heater.

Millie's House
A favourite aunt's was an atypical homesteader's wife.

Ma's House
The details of the author's grandmother's home and associated dreams.

The Flowered Indian Trail
Description of travois trails in the Bjorkdale area and memories of Nikotash, a local Aboriginal.

A Remarkable Well
Drilling and cleaning an incredibly deep well in the Allan district and its prolific resource during the Depression.

The New Washing Machine
Children's excitement about a new manual washing machine and how the novelty of it disappears.

Prince, a Deserted Hamlet
The memories of Mabel Margaret (Ray) King of the Jackfish Lake area.

A Rural Municipality
A number of 'firsts' for the R.M. of Wallace, including the first Agriculture Land Use Survey. An interesting comparison of 1954 farming practices compared with today's practices.

The Barn Builder
Details about multi talented Harry Harvey Hahn and his musical family, including "The Harmony Kids", "Hahn's Jazz-Azz" and Joyce Hahn - "Saskatchewan's Shirley Temple."

School Exams
Details about writing government Departmental exams.

John Malcolm (Silvertip) Campbell
A short biography about this trader who was well known in the Flett's Springs - Kinistino area. Details about his family, the historic Fort Farm and the Prince Albert area.

Amos Kinsey's Elk Team
This Moosomin area man had a trained elk team that were faster than any ox team.

Grandfather's Frames
Long prairie winters resulted in the author's grandfather's hobby of hand carving picture frames to avoid 'cabin fever.'

Tommy the School Horse
Before billets and school buses, children relied on horse drawn vehicles to go to school.

Book Review of Where the River Runs
Peggy Durant reviews this book about the importance of both Saskatchewan Rivers, from the fur trade to the Riel Rebellion.

Depression Ingenuity
Directions to make a home-made cheese press out of simple materials.