Awesome.
I love the second one. I wish scooters were more popular here. I can't remember the last time I've seen one.
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A creepy one from here. One of the abandoned WWII batteries at Cape Spear. There are a few around the city. I hate re-listening to myself. "When the Americans left, they pretty much just left all this here." No, b'y, what d'ya expect? Them to dig the ****ing concrete bunker out of the hills and take it with them?
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Same lane as my previous video, but continues on a little longer. Also, it was filmed in "summer". You thought the lane was weird... check out the street at the end. That's a two-way road, not a pedestrian path.
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A hike to the very tippy top of Gibbet Hill, where they used to display the bodies of the executed. It's not the highest point on Signal Hill, but it is the closest high point to the city so it offers the most unobstructed view.
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Catherine Snow was the last famous execution in St. John's. She was an unhappily married Irish Catholic from Harbour Grace who was known to fight with her husband, throw things at him, etc. He went missing, everyone suspected her, and dried blood was discovered on his dock.
Snow, her cousin, and one of her slaves (officially "indentured servant", but functionally a slave) were charged. Snow fled into the forest but eventually turned himself in. She was tried in St. John's on January 10, 1834. She was convicted on circumstantial evidence, which very nearly started a civil war in Newfoundland. She, of the Irish Catholic majority, sentenced to death by the English Anglican elites. Riots nearly broke out when it was discovered Snow was to be executed while she was pregnant, and Irish Catholic churches preached rebellion against the injustice in their sermons. Even upper class Anglican men mentioned in their letters in the paper that their wives wouldn't shut up about it and wanted the execution scrapped.
In the end, her death was delayed and she was hanged shortly after giving birth.
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On July 21, 1834, as crowds gathered on Duckworth Street, Snow walked out on the platform. Her last words were,
I was a wretched woman, but I am as innocent of any participation in the crime of murder as an unborn child.
According to the Public Ledger: The unhappy woman, after a few brief struggles, passed into another world.
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A little taste of a foggy sunrise - the sounds of St. John's waking up.
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Walking downhill in St. John's from my house to Water Street, including a handful of little pedestrian-only lanes.
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And, of course, the famous, the infamous George Street.
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