A beautiful racket: In Newfoundland, the ugly stick is an instrument in high demand

This year, Dave Rowe, owner of a decades-old music store in St. John's, N.L., found himself in a peculiar yet pressing situation: he was out of ugly sticks, and the man who made them was retiring.

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