Problog and Epiblog - Sunny Cottage and the Fairy Rocks

PROBLOG

Somehow the hike along the Coastal Trail and around Mile Pond isn't complete without additional context.  Here we will add ours.

Before our hike, we drove over to Sunny Cottage for breakfast.

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The 3-story house is a landmark in Harbour Breton.  It is painted white with a burgundy trim, graced by a widow's walk up top, and covered with gingerbread.  It was built in the Queen Anne style for merchant John Joseph Rose and his wife Mary Ann.  One of their descendants, John Boyce Stewart, married Blanche Snow, a schoolteacher.  They had 8 children.  They sold the house to the town of Harbour Breton in 1996.  It is now open to the public as a heritage center, and one of their children, Pansett (known as Pansy) manages it for the town.  A gregarious woman, Pansy loves talking about the house where she grew up.

Sunny Cottage advertises breakfast from 8 am and the museum open from 9 am.  We arrived around 8:45 to find Pansy just arriving.  As it happened, Pansy advised us that the restaurant was closed for breakfast, but she would serve us anyways.  She took our orders and let us look around.

When breakfast was ready, it was a hearty serving of eggs, ham (or bologna), toast and jam, and coffee or tea.  We hungrily enjoyed our meal while Pansy regaled us with stories about her adventures in managing Sunny Cottage.  We met her summer assistants and went on our way, grateful for her hospitality.

EPIBLOG

The Mile Pond boardwalk is graced with fanciful gatherings of painted rocks depicting various fanciful themes, such as "Fairland, Disney characters, characters from the Simpsons TV show, and other well-recognized cultural sources.  Rather than describe the various rock collections, instead we will show you some of them here.  If you're curious, come to Mile Pond and see all of them!