Folklore Magazine - Winter 2004

Poetry:

The Englishman
The Givers
On The Gift of A Quilt
The Combine

Features:

Mail Order Teeth
The family’s hired hand decides that mail order teeth will help him to court women.

Disaster at the Christmas Concert
Moonshine and Santa at the Pine Valley School concert.

The Feather Stitch Quilt
A book of cloth suit samples, hockey sock yarn and a patient sister combines for a Christmas gift for mother.

The Rescue
A ‘Huckleberry Finn’ adventure demands a rescue.

The Blacksmith in the 1930s
The shop plan and techniques of Mr. Storr on Broadway Avenue in Saskatoon.

Let’s Have a Party
Four family rated games for Christmas time.

The Wolverine Hay Co-op
The business and machinery needed to grow fodder on abandoned land.

Chimney Fires
The Johnson family handles disaster with their wood frame farm house in the Bjorkdale area.

Vesta Pickel
Vesta‘s memories of childhood and youth while her family moved around Saskatchewan and her growing interest in becoming a poet.

The Winter I Curled
The author’s recollection of meeting Bertha McLean of Welwyn in 1944.

The Honey Man
Frank Amas of Qu’Appelle was a survivor of the Battle of Cut Knife Hill during 1885.

Asherton Bean’s Legacy
The Robin Hood Mills plant in Moose Jaw was the largest flour mill between Winnipeg and Vancouver.

Book Review of People, Places Cookbook
Bill Barry’s recipe book includes matching Saskatchewan historical notes and illustrations.

Book Review of The Long Whistle
Author Myers created this fictional work based on her childhood memories and the memories of her ‘dust bowl farmer’ parents.

Depression Ingenuity
Bill Boldt of Saskatoon demonstrates his ‘Depression ingenuity’ with his rig to repair trim on his car.