Our plastic history

How to drown in imaginary rivers

A postcard depiction of the Colonial Building, St. John’s. The presence of the two German howitzers on either side of the entrance dates the picture sometime after 1918. The styles of dress suggest the 1920s, not later than 1930.

“[My life] for forty years was a pair of rivers, the river that might have been beside the one that was.”

Sheilagh Fielding, …