Photo copyright © 2025 by Gerry O’Brien

To celebrate my ten years of daily photography today, I went into the archives for a 1980 image taken in my grandparent’s home in Cape Broyle, Newfoundland. My grandfather built this two story wooden house for his new bride around 1910, but was soon told by the government that a planned railroad track would run right through the middle of the building. So my grandfather, his three brothers, and some neighbors jacked the house up onto logs, and rolled it about 100 feet to where it stood for a century. The Atlantic Ocean can be seen at the bottom of the window frame. This was the view from their kitchen table. I spent many summers there as a boy, looking out this same window.