An Evening With Gordon Pinsent

On Thursday, July 30, 7:30 pm, the Newfoundland Quarterly will host ‘An Evening With Gordon Pinsent’ at the D. F. Cook Recital Hall, Memorial Campus. This will include a reading from one of his stories, staged performances of some excerpts from his scripts, and an interval of question-and-answer sessions conducted by CBC Radio’s Jamie Fitzpatrick. Tickets are open to all: the cost is a $5.00 donation to a charity of Mr. Pinsent’s choice.
It will be followed by a reception.
If you would like to attend, please let us know.

Sincerely,

Joan Sullivan Linda Jackman
Managing Editor Circulation Manager

and,
The Board of Directors, Newfoundland Quarterly Foundation

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Spelling It Out Part 2

It seems I misrepresented the manhole cover inscription - the proper wording (as I observed this morning) is Confined Space Danger Permit Required. But I am still puzzled. Isn't the hazard not that it is a confined space, but that it is the opposite - an open space allowing one to plummet pell mell to the depths of the earth? OK, I'll stop thinking about this now.

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Well, if you really need it spelled out like that...

Walking around the city, one can be oblivious to such municipal infrastructure as manhole covers, but, from time to time, I do notice them, and thus read the warning there embedded: Caution, Confined Space. And I ask myself, Who on earth is that intended for? Surely if anyone was that divorced from perceptual reality they would have a hard time reading? Maybe a big 'X' would pose a more effective textual barricade?

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There's no better time or place for a run than 9am on a July Saturday morning in Grand Bank, with the air salty and a little cool, the sky a bit overcast and the wind just a rumour of ocean breeze. Incidentally when I say I went for a run you can kind of put that in quotes - "run" - it was more like a pretty slow jog interspersed with great bouts of walking. But thus I was able to keep enough breath to say "morning" back to all the nice Grand Bank people who said "morning" to me - and this included the mayor, Rex Barnes, who was all dressed up in a nice suit to meet the schooner the Bowdoin, which was docking as part of the Bartlet celebrations. If you get a chance to meet her at a

port of call

you're in luck - she's a beautiful sight.

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Grand Bank or Bust

And we're off on the first road trip of the summer - to the Grand Bank Regional Theatre Festival, directed so artistically by our own Berni Stapleton. She's made a script out of some of the pieces she's published with the NQ, and we can't wait to see it. See you in Grand Bank, if you happen to to be around those parts, and catch you back here Monday.

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July 1, 1916

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