Tag: Michael Crummey

  • Newfoundland Off the Map: Michael Crummey’s Sweetland

    Newfoundland Off the Map: Michael Crummey’s Sweetland

    The demographics don’t lie. In a couple of decades, a generation at most, dozens of Newfoundland communities will have disappeared, and there seems to be no way to reverse the flow. Soon, all that will remain will be a ghostly assembly like the one that closes Michael Crummey’s Sweetland – a scene reminiscent of some…