“Resetting the Stage: An exciting return to traditional ways”
By LINDA BROWNE • FEBRUARY, 2015
A program unfolding in Petty Harbour will preserve an important part of the province’s past for future generations.
It’s the middle of December and it’s hard to see Petty Harbour through the pea soup fog. Even the sharpest filleting knife couldn’t cut through it. But deep down in the gut of the harbour, at a place known as “Island Rooms,” the little fishing sheds line up alongside the wharf like soldiers on guard, and the boats bob determinedly up and down in the water as if waiting to ring in a new era. There’s something special happening in this small, historic fishing village.