Decks Awash, vol. 05, no. 04 (August 1976)

A pig is a pig is a pig -- This little pig is going to market -- Capelin on the run -- Government money and from where it comes -- What’s a police officer doing in a classroom? -- How to make sealskin boots -- Weather information -- How to buy and stay alive in a canoe -- Quiz on canoe safety -- Joe...

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Other Authors: Sherk, Susan, Barrett, Ralph; Butler, Victor, 1896-1981; Peters, Dale; Sherk, Susan
Format: Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Memorial University Extension Service 1976
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Online Access:http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/cns_decks/id/6677
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Summary:A pig is a pig is a pig -- This little pig is going to market -- Capelin on the run -- Government money and from where it comes -- What’s a police officer doing in a classroom? -- How to make sealskin boots -- Weather information -- How to buy and stay alive in a canoe -- Quiz on canoe safety -- Joey Smallwood’s brain waves -- Special section : islands of Newfoundland -- Grey River -- Box 999 -- The last word. "Islands of Newfoundland" (cover). -- Frequency: irregular, vol. 1 - vol. 2, no. 3 (1968-73); bimonthly, vol. 2, no. 4 - vol. 22, no. 2 (1973-93); not published March-October 1982, May-July 1991. The first publication entitled Decks Awash was a 1964-65 newsletter summarizing the content of the Memorial University Extension Service television program of the same name (1964-77). Between 1968-93 a new Decks Awash journal was published independent of the show, covering topics of interest to both fishermen and rural Newfoundlanders, including fisheries equipment and policy, agricultural development and community profiles. (Catherine F. Horan, "Decks Awash," Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador, vol. 1, 605.)