Eponymy

My sister and her son, my nephew, standing on the Great Sea Arch at Archie's Beach in Trinity Bay two days ago. It's a short but fairly difficult walk out to the arches and I was particular happy that my older sister, 74 years old, was willing to try -- and able to do it.

This area, Heart's Ease, is probably named for this and other, some fallen, sea arches. By the late 1600s though, the name Arches had become, as the French missionary, l'abbé Jean Beaudoin wrote it "Archisse," and also as the English map-makers wrote it "Heart's Ease." The latter is what remains both the official and a common name, though many locals call it Heartsies or Archie's, the name I prefer.

[I can *sometimes* hold my camera plumb, but mostly I don't think to do it. Thus the picture is turnt somewhat.]