Miramichi Memories by Mary Mondoux My mom and I often took the train to visit her parents Lee and Inez Buckley in Newcastle, NB. We would take the Rapido from Toronto to Montreal and make the run for the connection to the train to her home town. Most times the seats on our trains converted [Read More...]
My Mountain School Christmas by Kellie Underhill This year my Christmas festivities started early in December when my mother, Pauline, sister, Sherry, and I went to the Kin Centre around the square in Newcastle, Miramichi to attend a special dinner theatre performance. A local theatre troupe, The Heritage Players, were staging their latest production called [Read More...]
Arts, culture, Family, Fredericton, Giver Miramichi, Grand Falls, Kellie Underhill, Memoir, Moncton
My Mr. Claus by Kim Drisdelle As I search through my boxes to gather up Christmas ornaments, I slip back in time. I find myself thinking about the many sacrifices my parents, like many parents, make for their children during this ever so meaningful time of year. Over the years, Santa has become the human [Read More...]
Arts, Children, culture, Family, Fredericton, Giver Miramichi, Grand Falls, Memoir, Moncton
When my mother was a girl she would walk up the road every weekday morning with her siblings and friends to the old Mountain School, a traditional one-room schoolhouse in Gray Rapids on the Miramichi River in New Brunswick. I’ve grown up listening to stories of how children of all ages and grades learned their [Read More...]
Theatre New Brunswick (TNB) proudly presents David Adams Richards Hockey Dreams! Hockey Dreams premieres March 17th at The Fredericton Playhouse and runs until March 20th. It will also be presented at Saint John’s Imperial Theatre on March 24th and at Moncton’s Capitol Theatre March 25th. Hockey Dreams is a world premiere event written by David [Read More...]
Yes Kellie, There is a Santa Claus! by Kellie Underhill (Originally published in Bread ‘n Molasses Nov/Dec 2010 print edition. Read the whole magazine online. Click here!) I still get butterflies in my stomach when I remember how Christmas felt as a child. The sliding door with its frosted windows would always be closed on [Read More...]
A Sailor’s gift by Myrna Beth Lambert It was Christmas day 1983. My husband and I were at Children’s Hospital with a sick child. She had been hospitalized for three weeks while the doctors did several tests as they tried to diagnose her illness. The children on her floor were all seriously ill and I [Read More...]
Five Pairs Of Woollen Socks (A Christmas Story) by Annabel Sheila Sheila grinned at Max’s struggle with the stitches required to turn the heel on the woollen socks he was knitting for his daughters. No matter how many times she showed him how to do it, he always managed to get stuck in the same [Read More...]
Purple Violets By Barbara Ledford Wright Mama used the Sears and Roebuck catalogue to teach what I should know before starting to school. She cut out pictures and glued them to index cards so I could learn colours. Her expert hands cut a complete set of the alphabet and numbers from the catalogue. I learned [Read More...]
A Somewhat Different Christmas by Mona Vail As every Christmas season arrives it brings back fond memories of my younger years during World War II when my dad and uncle were overseas. My family at home, Grammie, Mom and Aunt Kitty loved my sister and me so much—although I can’t remember any hugs, the love [Read More...]
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