Folklore Magazine - Spring 2005

Poetry:

The Whistlers - by Shirley Lomheim
The Reaping - by Gord Braun

Features:

Seattle or Bust on Pinky and Jinx - by Ruth Jeeves
Rhoda Gayton, June Jacques and Ruth Jeeves travel over 3,000 miles on Harley Davidson motorcycles.

Battling Bedbugs - by L.M. Sivertson
Trials and tribulations of eliminating bedbugs.

The Mistaseni - by Joan Soggie
A short history of the large buffalo rock near Elbow, Sask.

Shopping with Mom in the ‘30s - by Robert Thompson
Memories of various Saskatoon merchants and what they offered.

How to Start a Model T Ford - by Margaret Lees
The truthful and funny method of starting a Model T.

Tire Tribulations - by Jean Fahlman
Flat tires and a boiled out radiator run a fishing trip.

The Thunderstorm - by Ruth Jeeves
Escaping a lightening strike with water from the drinking pail.

The Kay Parley Story - by Margaret Lees
Kay’s memories of her life in the Indian Head-Moffat area, Toronto, Weyburn and Regina.

Signs of the Times - by Bev Lundahl
The Bryant grain elevator and changing methods of transporting grain.

Easter at Fort San - by Bev Lundahl
The author’s experience of researching who had signed a paper napkin while recovering at Fort San with her grandmother.

The Day they lost Everything - by Bonny Dillen-Daku
An arranged marriage and two wedding gifts, a colt and a shovel.

A Laughable Feast - by Therese Lefebvre
The use of dandelions for more than salad.

Stradivarious Strategy - by Gordon Pearce
Bartering practically all of worth for a violin of imagined worth.

Oh ye of Little Faith - by Glenn B. Cross
A minister, a telephone and a clap of thunder.

Addison House - by Shirley Byers Lalonde
Starting in 1909, James Addison built an unusually constructed sod house that is now a national and provincial heritage site.

Columns:

Depression Ingenuity - by Jack Driedger
A tractor wheel is converted into a livestock watering trough.

Working - by Robert Thompson
Erie Garfat’s career as a Registered Nurse, beginning in the late 1940s.

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