THE COLLECTION by Sally West Goddard

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These stories have been told around our dinner table for as long as I can remember. The Collection refers to the artifacts my husband and I have collected. We lived in Papua New Guinea for 10 years. When we returned to Canada, we lived up north in isolated, fly-in communities for almost 10 years. Then we moved to southern Canada. Each place had different artifacts and stories. All stories are Sally's interpretation of events. Tim may have a different take on what really happened. Enjoy!

Episodes

  1. 08/18/2022

    Introducing Marilyn... Pangnirtung

    Let me introduce Marilyn, my one person audience who listens and occasionally chimes in as I tell my stories. The main story today is about our move to Pangnirtung, Nunavut.

    16 min
  2. Dundurn Saskatchewan

    08/03/2022

    Dundurn Saskatchewan

    Adventures of living in a little house on the prairies....

    9 min

  3. 07/21/2022

    Here's Black Lake

    Black Lake was our first Canadian experience. It is north east of Lake Athabaska, about 50 km south of the Northwest Territories

    15 min

  4. 07/12/2022

    Shells

    Stories about shells. Some are similar to stories you have heard in previous episodes, but they just get better when retold.

    19 min

  5. 06/28/2022

    The Coleman Lamp

    ... and suddenly the earth moved

    5 min
  6. The Visitor

    06/20/2022

    The Visitor

    When we lost the baby....

    12 min

  7. 06/13/2022

    The Birth Certificate

    When the best laid plans fall apart...

    17 min
  8. Licence Plates

    06/06/2022

    Licence Plates

    Motorbikes and cars made our lives interesting

    12 min

  9. 05/30/2022

    Willow Pattern Platter

    It was a three hour boat trip that went wrong.

    9 min

  10. 05/24/2022

    The Wedding Rings

    Tim and I eloped and had a remarkable honeymoon!

    8 min

  11. 05/14/2022

    The Snake at Losuia

    What do you do when you see a snake crawling up a post and into your house?

    4 min
  12. The Wooden Snake

    05/01/2022

    The Wooden Snake

    The Collection by Sally West Goddard is a series of stories based on artifacts Sally and her husband Tim collected as they have lived, worked, traveled, and raised a family from the jungles of Papua New Guinea, to remote fly-in communities in Canada's Arctic, to the foothills of the Rockies and finally to the eastern shoreline.  The artifact for episode 1 is a wooden snake. This snake becomes the catalyst for a number of entertaining stories. Enjoy the inaugural episode.

    24 min
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These stories have been told around our dinner table for as long as I can remember. The Collection refers to the artifacts my husband and I have collected. We lived in Papua New Guinea for 10 years. When we returned to Canada, we lived up north in isolated, fly-in communities for almost 10 years. Then we moved to southern Canada. Each place had different artifacts and stories. All stories are Sally's interpretation of events. Tim may have a different take on what really happened. Enjoy!

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