Rum Tales: Down Home Yarns Around a Pot-Bellied Stove

Welcome to The Shop.

Arthur Benjamin Lohnes was proprietor of a small country store known locally as The Shop in Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia, from 1919 through 1957. AB, as he was called, provided a welcoming haven to people eager to indulge in the venerable art of loafing and storytelling. The yarns were spun by some of the most colourful characters of the first half of the twentieth century.

With the blessing of their wives, menfolk met there regularly around the warmth of AB’s pot-bellie...