In February 1918, the S.S. Florizel left St. John’s on what would be its last journey. Blizzard conditions and miscommunication between the bridge and the engine room caused the vessel to crash into the rocks near Cappahayden, NL. Of the 137 souls on board, only 44 survived. One hundred years later, folklorist Dale Jarvis and guests Heather Elliott and Deanna Walter met at Admiralty House Communications Museum to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the shipwreck.

This February, Joan Ritcey retired as Head of Memorial University’s Centre for Newfoundland Studies (CNS). Joan worked with Memorial University Libraries for 38 years, and throughout her career, she shared her extensive knowledge of all things Newfoundland and Labrador, working to collect and preserve the print culture of our province, making it widely accessible through digitization initiatives and research tools.

Jae Hong Jin is a researcher, photographer, and musician who is currently working as a library assistant at the QEII library at Memorial University. Since his college days, Jae has been a tradition bearer of the intangible cultural heritage of traditional farmers' music and drumming ensembles. We talk about Korean culture, work being done to safeguard intangible cultural heritage and musical traditions, Korean folktales, and discuss if there is anything in the world more terrifying than a dried persimmon.

Outside the Ella Freeman Heritage House in Champney’s West sits a curious artefact. Passersby might think it only an old piece of wood, but locals know it was the spar of the wrecked vessel Hazel Pearl. Radio documentary producer Rebecca Nolan presents a special episode which tells the full story of Hazel Pearl - where the ship came from, and how it ended up at the bottom of Trinity Bay.

Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić might not be the first name you think of when you think of fairy tales, unless, of course, you had a magical Croatian childhood like photographer and researcher Bojan Fürst. Bojan has been working to translate some of the literary fairy tales of Croatian author Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, whose work utilizing traditional Slavic names and motifs been compared to Hans Christian Andersen and JRR Tolkien. Today, we’re delving into the enchanting fairytales of Bojan’s childhood.

In this episode of the Living Heritage Podcast, we sit down for a geek-out session with Grace Shears, the Risk Manager at AbbyShot Clothiers Limited in Mount Pearl. We talk about the work of AbbyShot, and how they are using traditional skills and knowledge to craft three of their most recent products related to the Outlander television series, plus a chat about Doctor Who, the world of conventions, and Grace’s own Newfoundland family connection to the Isle of Skye, Scotland.

Meghan Forsyth is the Project Coordinator and Researcher at the Research Centre for the Study of Music, Media, and Place, and is co-author of the forthcoming book The Music of Our Burnished Axes: Songs and Stories of the Woods Workers of Newfoundland and Labrador. Recently, MMaP launched “The Neighbours: St. John’s” app. Meghan describes how the app enables users to take a walking tour of downtown St. John’s and Middle Cove Beach, and then she gives us a preview of her new book on logging song trad

In this episode of the Living Heritage podcast, we’re celebrating Ukrainian Christmas! Folklorist Terra Barrett sits down with storyteller, musician, and ethnomusicologist Brian Cherwick to talk about this festive day! Brian Cherwick specializes in east European traditional music, diaspora cultures, ethnic identity, music industry, material culture, oral history, and the development of Ukrainian traditional music in western Canada.

Abby Moss was born and raised in Gander, NL. She began her career as a seasonal worker at the North Atlantic Aviation Museum in 2013, and she has just finished her fifth summer with the museum. Doing work from creating exhibits to digitizing archives, she now holds the role as Tour Coordinator with Beyond Words Tour, a 9/11 tour of Gander.

Ryan Davis has been running the Mummers Festival since 2009. One of the traditions the Mummers Festival has helped to safeguard is the hobby horse. With its devilish spirit and snapping jaws, it might not be the first thing one associates with the season of comfort and joy, but it is a centuries-old part of the Yuletide season in Newfoundland and Labrador. In this podcast, we chat with Ryan about all things hobby horse!