Unveiled: The research and stories behind “Any Mummers ‘Lowed In?”

Unveiled: The research and stories behind “Any Mummers ‘Lowed In?”
Wednesday, December 3rd, 7pm.
Engaging Evenings Series, The Rooms Theatre, St. John's
Folklorist and author Dale Jarvis presents an illustrated talk on the work that went into the making of his most recent book, “Any Mummers ‘Lowed In?” Using examples from historical records, oral histories and collected photographs, Dale will explain how the book came together, and share stories from his research.

Presented as part of the Mummers Festival

The White Horse - A Newfoundland tale of superstition and loss

A fisherman named Albert has a strange encounter with a phantom white horse. Only too late does he realize what terrible tragedy the ghost horse presaged. This traditional tale of superstition and folk belief from Proctor’s Cove, Placentia Bay, Newfoundland, originally recorded in the 1920s, is here retold by folklorist and storyteller Dale Jarvis, and is taken from his book “Haunted Waters: More True Ghost Stories of Newfoundland and Labrador.”

Download the mp3.

The music track for the tale is “Salted Caramel” by Black Twig Pickers and Steve Gunn, and is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License. Additional sound effects by swiftoid and geoneo0 of freesound.org. Photo "White Horse" by Richard PJ Lambert/Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

Newfoundland Mermaids... for the win!!

About a month ago, I got an email from Erin, a grade four student at All Hallows Elementary, North River. She was working on a Heritage Fair project, and had decided to do it on the folklore of mermaids in Newfoundland. So I sent her some information, and wrote up a little bit about mermaids in Newfoundland for my "Newfoundland Unexplained"column in The Telegram.

Then, the other day, I got this email from Erin, and the photo above of her with her winning presentation:

Thank you for all the help you gave me with my project. I won first place! That means I'm going to the regional fair at Amalgamated! As promised I will send you a picture of the finished project. It was really nice talking with you. Thanks,
Erin

Congratulations, and good luck, Erin!