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A house being moved by floating it from Silver Fox Island, Bonavista Bay, to Dover, Newfoundland, 1961 Photo: Bob Brooks
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22 Jun 2025 5 min read
A house being moved by floating it from Silver Fox Island, Bonavista Bay, to Dover, Newfoundland, 1961 Photo: Bob Brooks http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect?app=fonandcol&id=4314208&lang=eng&ecopy=e010975948-v8

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Toby Ferris

Toby Ferris

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12 Oct 2025 5 min read

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In the Reykjavik Art Museum at Hafnarhús there was, when I first visited with my brother in 2018, a room given over to two sculptural installations by the Icelandic artist Ragna Róbertsdóttir (b.
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21 Sep 2025 5 min read

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The organ in the Hallgrímskirkya in Reykjavik is a giant’s causeway of clustered steel pipes, five thousand two hundred and seventy-five of them. It has seventy-two stops, four manuals and a pedalboard,
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Herring and the Shetland Receivers
07 Sep 2025 8 min read

Herring and the Shetland Receivers

Get the nets. The whole sea’s boiling. Peter Grimes (Montagu Slater) The herring will set you free. After a fashion. North Atlantic fishermen had always hunted the herring, in amongst the cod
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