Folklore Magazine - Winter 2007

Poetry:

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Features:

School Day Lunches
Common lunch items in the time before pizza pops and microwaves.

Summer Evening with Three Friends
The unusual way the author's father spent summer evenings with the family's pet chickens.

A Saskatchewan Love Story
The rocky courtship between Westerner Margaret George and Easterner Elroy McGill.

Joining the United Church
School and church in the 1940s in the Meota and Prince areas.

The First Prairie Church in the Far Southwest
The many attempts to establish a church in the Dollard-Shaunavon area and the Canadian Pacific Railway's own plans.

Let's Have A Party
Amusements for parties of any type.

Keeping Warm in Winter
The techniques of chopping, curing, cutting wood and making feather filled quilts is detailed.

Hallowe'en and the Trolley Line
How a clothesline foils Hallowe'en pranksters.

A Call in the Night
Grandmother’s announcement of a birth, after death!

The Elusive Cat
An itinerant knife sharpener with a unique skill fools the author as a child.

The Telephone
A detailed account of the technology and uses of the party-line phone in the home and community.

The Outdoor Rink
The construction and enjoyment of a home-made skating rink.

The Oil Boom of 1956
Life in Estevan before and during the first oil boom in the area.

An Onion Lake Teacherage
The author describes several 'adventures' that happened at night.

Book Review:

Kay Parley reviews Forgotten Gardens, Abandoned Landscapes & Remarkable Restorations

Columns:

Looking Back
Automobile travel 75 years ago.

Working
Home remedies from the 1930s.

Depression Ingenuity
Description of a smokehouse designed by Mr. Driedger's father.