Inuksuit of the Rogue Many friends of the Lunar Rogue Pub have lived in the city and moved away, or have come here to work and have moved on. But in a very Canadian way, many have left their Inuksuk in the Lunar Rogue over the last 25 years to show that they were here. We’ll point some of these out below so you can notice them the next time you’re in The Rogue. In the “days of sail”, sailors would be at sea for years and had no home except the ship. They would leave a mug at a pub in some port to feel at home somewhere. The tradition lives on at the Rogue. Some of the mugs hanging behind the bar at the Rogue are used by their owner every week, and some mugs come down only once in a while. Others have been waiting for their mate’s return for years. One of the mugs behind the Bar belongs to the late George Melvin. A friendly, gregarious, giant of a man who was literally one of the first people to walk through the door of the Lunar Rogue Pub on the first day it opened in 1989. He was a fixture on every St Pat’s Day celebration. After he sat down in the new pub, Frank and Brian asked “So what do you think of our new pub George.” His eyes darting around the new pub he was smiling from ear to ear he said quietly “Have my mail forwarded to this address”. George passed away a number of years ago, but the mug remains, and a couple of us who were his old friends still bring his mug down every St. Patrick’s Day to have a pint from it. George would be smiling. Over the front window there’s a series of pictures of a Soccer Club that begins as a provincial championship side called The Galleons in the 70’s and 80’s. Look across the pictures and you’ll see many of the same faces. One of them is the late John Rutter, a former Royal Marine and a great friend of the Rogue. John was the one who suggested shortly after we opened that we needed dividers down the long bench on the wall across from the bar to create ‘snugs’. John’s idea was a key element to the atmosphere of The Rogue and is his inuksuk that Frank and Brian remember. That led to the opportunity for Ned Bowes’ creations of stained glass in them, the most prominent and beautiful inuksuk in the Rogue. Over the back bar there is an old beer barrel. On it is printed “James Ready St. John NB”. Philip W. Oland himself identified it for us as a barrel from the Moosehead brewery of about the 1930’s. It was placed there as a gift to the Rogue by the Fredericton St. Patrick’s Society in 1991 by its President Frank Forrestal for permanent safe-keeping by the Rogue for the Society. The Society refers to it as the “Wee Neillie Barrel”. The Society had a fun tradition of inviting internationally renowned Leaders to speak at their annual Dinner. The PO letter from the invitee declining the invitation would be read at the dinner to the cheers and applause of the attendees, because it meant they didn’t have to sit through a speech before they got to the Bushmills. They were proudly told to PO by some of the best. Over the front door as you leave the Rogue you notice a poster with the legendary Front Row of the New Zealand All Blacks, Richard Loe, Sean Fitzpatrick, and Steve McDowell reminding you of an important message. Donna Gordon brought that back from a friendly pub in Queenstown on the South Island in 1990. Donna says that when she saw it, she just knew it belonged in the Rogue. Frank and Brian had it properly mounted on a board and knew just where it should be hung. Once in a while you’ll notice a big paw quietly reach up and gently touch the poster as the big person attached to it walks out the door. Rugby is a game of deep but subtle respect.