Folklore Magazine - Summer 2003

Poetry:

Flying Club Reunion
This Old House
This Patient Worker
Wanuskewin

Features:

The House Out Back
The upkeep and embarassment associated with the family outhouse in Star City.

Lucky to be Born in the 1930s
Little money yes, but poor by whose standards?

They Came Here
One family's experience of the 1939 Royal Visit to Regina by Queen Elizabeth and Kin George VI.

Digging Seneca Root
A description of digging Seneca root and preparing it for sale.

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

The Big Barn Era
Childhood experiences in and on the barn and memories of barn dances.

The Little Church on the Hill
The construction and restoration of St. John's Anglican Church, near Bjorkdale.

And Some Went Home Again
The experiences of Duncan Martin in Canada in the Prince district and Stornoway, in the Hebrides (Scotland).

Running Rural Phone Companies
The author's experience in Rouleau collecting payment for five rural phone companies and taking a deliquent client to small claims court.

St. Victor's Big Business
The origin of the Co-operative Family Protective Society in St. Victor and its evolution to Standard Life in Montreal.

Strongfield's 90th Birthday Party
The village of Stongfield's homecoming celebrations.

The Red Rag Blanket
Sending away old clothes and rags to be recycled into a new blanket and other wartime rationing memories.

My Grandmother's Vines
The author's grandmother's prodigeous 'green thumb' in Moffat and the endurance of a Virginia Creeper vine.

The Still
Suspicious activities near the village of Qu'Appelle involving bootlegging and an older brother's confession decades later.

Corning Hall
The enduring usefulness and architectural history of the community hall in the Corning area.

Firing Steam Tractors
The author's story of his first year as a Fireman on a steam threshing outfit, including descriptions of practical jokes and beading flues.

The Story of Milk
An account of the Yorkton area creamery, promotion of milk with the Dairy Princess competition and modern changes to the milk industry.

Book Review of 'No Doughnuts for Sale'
Evelyn Banks reviews this book about the author's memories of wartime Hungary and being a step ahead of the invading Russian army.

A Car to Remember
The author who was an experienced Model T driver, discovers the car has no brakes and narrowly misses hitting a pedestrian and cement pillar.

Depression Ingenuity
Instructions to make a home-made gopher trap out of threshing machine sieves.