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An Irish Adventure
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38 Submission of the Year Find out the winners for best photo and best story of 2025
48 An Irish Adventure With Newfoundland Echoes Kim Ploughman
76 New: Plates & Passages Still a Newfoundlander Bobbi Pike
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80 Downhome Recipes Cod is King
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homefront 8 Between the Lines A note from the Editor
10 Letters From Our Readers Trekking to Everest, Encountering Moose and ‘Playing Funeral’
16 Downhome Tours The Caribbean 18 Then & There Downhome catches readers up on major recent news, notes, events, anniversaries and acknowledgements across NL and beyond. 20 Why is That? Where does the saying “to get cold feet” come from? Linda Browne
22 Life’s Funny Bottled Betrayal Rose Noel
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23 Say What? A contest that puts words in someone else’s mouth 24 Lil Charmers Spring Sprites 26 Pets of the Month Paddy’s Day Pets
28 Book Nook Downhome dives into the latest and greatest in Newfoundland literature
30 Fresh Tracks Wendy Rose reviews Time Alone by Claire Porter and the Stouts 34 Adventures Outdoors ‘What’s that UP there?’ Gord Follett 4
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features 40 Anatomy of an Actor A Career in Review with Allan Hawco Dillon Collins
54 Brave New World Stories behind the place names of Newfoundland and Labrador Nicola Ryan
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60 A Cold Night in Gander When Strangers Came Through, Again Pam Pardy
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