Folklore Magazine - Winter 2005

Poetry:

Identity Crisis

Features:

A Requirement for Usefulness
The author’s perspective of his grandfather and father’s work habits.

The Prenatal Boarding House
An example of a home where rural pregnant woman stayed while waiting to deliver their babies.

Granny’s Lace & Other Old Things
Items belonging to the author’s grandmother and her memories.

Benjamin Ralph: One of God’s Gentlemen
English Headmaster, Dr. Benjamin Ralph’s experience and patience with homesteading and his avocation as a lay minister.

The Crystal Radio
A memory snapshot of the author’s experience with the family crystal radio.

Torchy
The unplanned adoption of a mare foal in the city of Regina.

Star City Rink
The history of several of Star City’s curling and skating rinks.

The Leprechaun Doctor
More stories about Dr. Murrough O’Brien’s rural career as the “Saddlebag Surgeon.”

Memories of a Boarder Town
The author’s observations of life “a stone’s throw” from the U.S. – Canada border.

Beginning Life in a New Land
Martin Geoghegan’s recollections of homesteading in Southeast Saskatchewan.

Swing Your Partner
Friday night dances were rotated through five farm families in the Qu’Appelle area.

Puffing your way through the 1930s
The author’s childhood recollections of store-bought and home-made cigarettes.

Let’s have a Party!
Four party games to enjoy this season.

Where Did All the Singing Go?
The author’s lament on the lack of singing with daily activities and gatherings.

Columns:

Looking Back
The happenings at a railroad station as an example of people’s honesty.

Working
Fred Davidson’s memories as a train employee.

Depression Ingenuity
How a Model T ignition coil, barbed wire fence and a set of earphones become a telephone.

Book Review:

Susan Conly reviews Wood Mountain Uplands