Skinny's Scoop

09/21/2026

REMINDER NEW HOURS. OPEN 4-8pm weekdays
11-8pm Saturday & Sunday.

09/20/2026

09/19/2026

We are OPEN this fine weekend 11-8pm
Here are the hard ice cream kinds we have left.
We also have chocolate or vanilla soft, swirl & sundaes, Twisters and more.
Come enjoy the last days of summer at Skinny’s
Takeout # 209-0165. Or online order link below.

https://online.skytab.com/c57fc3789df59a5791adc6165ac6abab

09/17/2026

YES WE ARE STILL OPEN. 11-8pm.
Come enjoy the sunshine. See you at Skinny’s.

09/15/2026

09/14/2026

REMINDER HOURS CHANGE TODAY
OPEN 11-8pm THIS WEEK.
Last full week of weekday lunches for the season
Stop by for lunch while you still can
Have a great week Skinny’s Fans.
Takeout # 506-209-0165. Online order link below

https://online.skytab.com/c57fc3789df59a5791adc6165ac6abab

09/13/2026

After your done picking. Stop by for some Food or an ice cream treat. Open 10–9pm today.
Takeout # 506-209-0165

09/12/2026

HELLO SUNSHINE!! We welcome you.
Here are the hard ice cream kinds we have also Soft Serve Swirl, sundaes & twisters.
Open this weekend. 10-9pm.
Takeout # 506-209-0165
Online order link below.

https://online.skytab.com/c57fc3789df59a5791adc6165ac6abab

09/11/2026

💥 In 1941, Charles Seely of Havelock woke up to a bang, ran downstairs, and found an entire airplane in his kitchen.

It had been a rough day for pilots Donald Whitworth and Ed Pangburn. The two New Jersey men were flying newsreels to Halifax when they got stuck at customs for hours over a passport rule introduced two days earlier. By the time they were cleared into Canada it was getting dark.

They radioed the Moncton airport to refuel. No answer. "The messages weren't picked up," Whitworth later shrugged in an interview with the Moncton Transcript newspaper, "at least, there were no replies."

Then they realised they were nearly out of fuel and decided to bail out.

Then they realised they'd forgotten their parachutes.

Pangburn took this poorly. He began dropping flares out the window to light up the ground below … which is when they discovered the flares were duds.

At last — beacon lights, and a long flat stretch to land on.
Assuming it was the Moncton Airport, Whitworth brought the plane down.

It was not the Moncton airport. It was a farmer's field in Havelock, and the beacon he'd aimed for was a farmhouse.

The landing went beautifully right up until the rockpile at the end of the field. Mid-bounce, Whitworth worked out that the family inside would be asleep upstairs, and shoved the throttle down so the nose would hit the first floor instead.

Mona Seely, 3, and George, 4, were asleep two feet above the propeller. They slept through all of it.

Downstairs, Whitworth climbed out of his cockpit into a kitchen where the dishes were still neatly stacked and "a faded picture of Queen Victoria smil[ed] benignly upon them." His propeller had hit the stove. The propeller broke. The stove was fine.

He gazed through the hole in the wall, and saw the family that lived there starting at them.

The first words out of the dazed pilot’s mouth were: "I bought insurance for $4,500 about a month ago."

📸 Photo info: Donald Whitworth striking an unusually jaunty pose next to the plane he crashed into a farmhouse the day before. (Provincial Archives of New Brunswick P27-1-493)

📰 Read the full story here: backyardhistory.ca/f/the-night-a-plane-crashed-into-a-kitchen

📕Backyard History unearths the often hilarious, mostly mysterious, always surprising untold tales of Canada’s East Coast, as only a Maritimer can spin them. Find the books here: backyardhistory.ca/books