Moon over the Droke, Job's Cove
Moon over the Droke, Job's Cove, oil on masonite, 24" x 34", Steven Rhude What's in a name of a community - in this case a lot: Devil’s Cove, 29th of May, 1812 The following is from "Place Names of the Avalon Peninsula of the Island of Newfoundland" (1971) by E.R. Seary, which also states that this petition was published in "'The Royal Gazette and Newfoundland Advertiser' on 11 June 1812 and subsequently". We the undersigned Inhabitants, conceiving the utility and benefits resulting from an early conception and sense of Religion instilled into the tender minds of our Children, and of the rising generation, do unanimously resolve to change and alter the barbarous, execrable, and impious name of "Devil's Cove", into the ancient, venerable, and celebrated name of "Job's Cove" ; and that the public News-paper of St. John's will publish these our resolutions three different times, so that every person in t