“and that’s really, was a seed that started what is now festival of flight,” – Clarice Goodyear

“now 68 years old in round figures, it caters to, or has catered over the years to approximately 20,000 members” – Donald Blackmore

Lorraine Rowe recalls how she would spend her Saturdays as a kid in Gander.

“We had one traffic light and our shopping center, if you can call it that, was basically a horseshoe-shaped series of buildings intersected by Elizabeth Drive, which by the way, if you look at the map and turn it upside down, it’s shaped like the head of a Gander.” – Dave Shaw