| The Road to Cupids |
| Tuesday dawned cloudy and threatening but didn't douse our plans for roadtripping. I picked Candace up, stopped at Tim's where she complained that Vince's coffee on the weekend had addicted her to the drink. LOL! He did make a good cup of coffee. We decided to take Roaches Line instead of the superhighway. It was a good decision. I pointed out the horse at the top of the hill to Candace as we drove by. I don't know the story of why someone put what looks like a horse weather vane on the precipice, but they did. All I know is, it has something to do with Joey Smallwood. We enjoyed driving on the back roads and shortly came upon a town called Cupids. I thought it went well with some of the other town names on the Peninsula - Heart's Desire, Heart's Content, Heart's Delight. The weather in Cupids was beautiful, but there were clouds rolling in. |
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| We were immediately taken by the sight of the town and got out of the car to take some photos. Candace is in the field, just finished taking her photos. Below are some harbour photos of Cupids. |
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| Turning around in the parking lot, a sign caught our eye - ARCHEOLOGICAL DIG --> ENTER HERE We did and were rewarded to learn some history of this area of Newfoundland. We paid the $3 charge to tour both the dig site and the Cupids Museum down the road, entering thru a wooden fence to greet Jennifer, who took some classes with Candace at MUN last year. She told us all about this site which had been accidentally discovered by the man who owned the property. All he was trying to do, was plant some potatoes. He kept hitting rock, rock and more rock. At some point he stopped and decided that the rock was there in some sort of pattern and called MUN to check it out. WHat a find! This site is older than the Ferryland Settlement by a few years! The artifacts can be traced back to 1608, the year after the Jamestown Settlement in America. Below are the cellars of two of the structures on the site, one built in the 1600's and one in the early 1800's. They can tell which is which by the building style. |
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| This is the original site. Can you imagine trying to plant potatoes there? A big job to clear THAT garden. It looks uneven because he indeed did get rid of some of the rocks when he started planting. The groud is covered in plastic and gravel over it to protest the site from weather and people. They say it is part of the livestock yard next to a house. |
| This is the 1800s pit, the cellar for a store. |
| This is the ste of the original house in 1607. |
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| Jen shows us what the original structure looked like. It had two floors. |
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