| Summary: | The twenty five volumes in this series differ in composition between two diary formats: the first format is that of an unbroken narrative of events in the life of the author, Howard Leopold Morry, or of the history of the community in which he was born and raised, Ferryland, Newfoundland; the second format is that of a conventional daily diary reporting on events of the day, including the weather and sea conditions, the ups and downs in the fishery, births, marriages and deaths of family, friends and neighbours, and newsworthy events at the local, national and international level. None of the 25 volumes are actually all of one format or the other. They all contain a larger or smaller component of each form of diary. The current volume is liberally laced with anecdotes and remembrances but is, for the most part, an example of the daily diary type. The manner in which the anecdotes are interspersed with daily observations can be a bit confusing at times. In this Sixteenth volume, the diary transcribed covers a very brief period between March 18 and July 12, 1957. At this time in his life, Howard finds himself feeling his age, which is not surprising considering he will soon to 72. But his rather morbid attention to the deaths of others his age and an anticipation of his own death is premature, as he has fifteen years of life ahead of him, though of course he has no way of knowing this. He is no longer in charge of the Morry fish business in Ferryland. That phase of his life ended in 1954. But he keeps his hand in by managing his own salmon net. Howard’s eldest son, Bill, has taken on the lion’s share of responsibility for the Morry fish business, having taken over and improved the fish plant which was begun by his brother Reg just after the war. He has also begun to outfit a trap crew as Howard once did. He is now concentrating on his great ambition for the fish plant which is, for the first time in over 100 years, the shipping of salt fish to foreign markets. Market conditions in 1957 were not as conducive to ...
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