My day trip to Dildo, Newfoundland ▬

Sources:

→ Jarvis, Dale. Place Names of Newfoundland and Labrador. Flanker Press, 2022.

→ My Photos: https://photos.app.goo.gl/YBfcufrFBdYX1jbRA ▬

Newfie jokes from my childhood and the book I am working on ▬

Sources:

→ Folklore and Language Archive, Memorial University, https://www.mun.ca/munfla/ ▬

The St. John’s Diocese of the Catholic Church has to pay over $100 million to settle sexual abuse claims at an orphanage ▬

Sources:

→ John Gushue and Terry Roberts, “$104M awarded to sexual abuse victims of Mount Cashel and N.L. priests,” CBC News, July 5, 2024, https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/church-mount-cashel-settlement-1.7255755

→ “List of wealthiest religious organizations,” Wikipedia, updated July 5, 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wealthiest_religious_organizations

→ Newfoundland and Labrador Statistics Agency, “Population by Religion and Gender, Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John’s (CMA), 2021 Census,” 2021, https://www.stats.gov.nl.ca/Statistics/Topics/census2021/PDF/REL_Religion_NL_2021.pdf

→ Newfoundland Boy, “NLBoy - Episode 14 - Photo from Signal Hill,” Google Photos: Wayne Jones, https://photos.app.goo.gl/xawTi9R18HYNA1YKA

→ Rosie Mullaley, “Clients relieved after courts order $100-million payout for abuse by Catholic clergy, lawyer says,” NTV News, July 7, 2024, https://ntv.ca/clients-relieved-after-courts-order-100-million-payout-for-abuse-by-catholic-clergy-lawyer-says/

→ “A society, not a monolith: what the Catholic Church is, and is not,” The Pillar, February 4, 2021, https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/a-society-not-a-monolith-what-the

→ “The Vatican’s wealth: a closer look,” Medium, September 21, 2023, https://medium.com/@contactjosey/the-vaticans-wealth-a-closer-look-22e12dc7bc7d ▬

My interview with Nadine Baldow, a Berlin-based artist whose show Alive Matter runs in St. John’s, Newfoundland, from May 24 to July 6 ▬

Sources:

→ I visit the exhibition: https://www.instagram.com/p/C8t4qmXugYl/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

→ Eastern Edge Artist-Run Centre, “Nadine Baldow: Alive Matter,” https://easternedge.ca/nadine-baldow-alive-matter/

→ Nadine Baldow’s website: https://www.nadinebaldow.com/ ▬

SHOW NOTES ▬

Is home the place where you were born, the place where you’ve lived your life, a place that you love, or a place you never really find? ▬

Sources:

→ “ Government Unveils New Provincial Licence Plate for Come Home Year,” VOCM 16 Nov. 2021, https://vocm.com/2021/11/16/government-unveils-new-provincial-licence-plate-for-come-home-year/

→ Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, number 6, 7 Apr. 1750, Eighteenth Century Collections Online, pp. 46–47, University of Michigan Digital Collections, http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004772607.0001.001

→ “Tomorrow Land,” Mad Men, created by Matthew Weiner, season 4, episode 13, Lionsgate Television, 17 Oct. 2010. ▬

My interview with Marjorie Doyle, author of Mary Foley, Mary Doyle (Boulder Books, 2024) ▬

Sources:

○ Marjorie Doyle’s site: https://www.marjoriedoyle.ca/

○ Boulder Books: https://boulderbooks.ca/product/mary-foley-mary-doyle/

○ Amazon.ca: https://www.amazon.ca/Mary-Foley-Doyle-Unravelling-mothers/dp/1989417914/▬

Degrees of good and bad service exist everywhere, but in St. John’s at least, they seem to be extreme ▬

My interview with Nicole Penney, Assistant Archivist at MUNFLA, Memorial University’s Folklore and Language Archive ▬

Sources:

○ Memorial University, MUNFLA, https://www.mun.ca/munfla/

○ Painting of W.J. Kirwin, one of the editors of the Dictionary of Newfoundland English, located at the Folklore and Language Archive, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pZaFYY8MQ46hB_IeRKlYE4Kv36QC-D7k/view?usp=sharing ▬