Down to Sally's Cove: Newfoundland Stories by Ella Manuel

About Down to Sally's Cove: Newfoundland Stories by Ella Manuel

“DOWN TO SALLY’S COVE” is a collection of stories about Newfoundland and Labrador by Ella Manuel (1911-1985) and read by me, Antony Berger. I’m the editor of my mother’s writings about the history and rich culture of the places she lived, and the people she knew and loved. New episodes will be uploaded every week until mid-January 2021. In 1945, after years in England and the USA, Ella returned to Newfoundland to live, a single mother with two small boys. Using her maiden name, she began to write for newspapers and magazines and to read for radio stories about the places and people she met, recapturing some of the forgotten men and women of Newfoundland’s past. Over the next three decades, her voice became known across Canada through her many broadcasts on the CBC. When she died, she left behind a confused mass of undated manuscripts and notes, which I have now arranged and edited. Only a few recordings of her marvellous voice still exist, so I have decided to read her stories myself, notwithstanding the challenge of a male voice substituting for hers. The stories are arranged in five groups. Season 1 is entitled Around Bonne Bay; Season 2 - Friends and Neighbours; Season 3 - Beyond the Bay; Season 4 - Medics, Missionaries and Military Men; Season 5 - Tough Times at Sea; Season 6 - Ghosts and Dirty Tricks A biography of my mother, together with a selection of her writings and broadcasts, including many of these podcast episodes, has been published under the title “No Place for a Woman. The Life and Newfoundland Stories of Ella Manuel” (Breakwater Books, St. John’s NL, 2020).

Publisher

Antony Berger

Category

history · society & culture · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

13 Apr 2020

Latest episode

12 Jan 2021

Latest episodes

46 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   12 Jan 2021

   EPISODE 46 - SPARBLES, SAVELOYS AND SCROOPY BOOTS

   In this final episode of the "Down to Sally's Cove" podcast, Ella Manuel comments on some of the odd phrases and strange words she came across in her travels around Newfoundland. Most, but not all, are now clearly explained in the magisterial Dictionary of Newfoundland English. Send us a text

2. 

   5 Jan 2021

   EPISODE 45 - BOATS AND BEARS ON ICE

   In this episode Ella Manuel recalls ice-boating on Burnt Bay off Lewisporte in the 1920s, and how her friend Nancy met a "bear" while crossing the Bay on the winter ice. Send us a text

3. 

   29 Dec 2020

   EPISODE 44 - THE LUMBER CAMP TRICKSTER

   Ella Manuel tells a story about a young sleeveen from Baker's Brook who was forever causing trouble in the woods camp where he worked. Send us a text

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