Pynn, Wally. Interview with Wally Pynn about his early life on the Northern Peninsula and later life in Portugal Cove-St. Philip's.

• Other Authors: Jablonski, Jill, Pynn, Wally
• Format: Audio
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Migration/settlement; Towns; Communities; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/ich_avalon/id/6260

Interview with Wally Pynn about his early life on the Northern Peninsula and later life in Portugal Cove-St. Philip's. Interviewed by Jill Jablonski as part of a Collective Memories Mug Up project conducted by Memorial University students enrolled in FOLK 6740: Public Folklore, Winter 2017. Tapelog and recording starts four minutes and forty seconds into the interview. 0:00 Wally Pynn talks about his crime novel—A Call to Lancy Harbor—that he is writing; 1:20 Pynn talks about writing his books; 2:50 Pynn states that there have never been any intriguing murders that he can recall in Portugal Cove; 4:40 Pynn talks about his cousin, who he always called ‘aunt’ who taught him to play the piano; 5:40 talks about playing the pipe organ in church; 5:27 talks about how easy the organ was to learn to play; 5:50 talks about how his family comes from a long line of musicians; 6:10 talks about Dr. Wilfred Grenfell who came to Newfoundland and Labrador, to provide social services; 7:00 talks about how his grandmother’s house was destroyed in a fire; 7:38 talks about how Dr. Grenfell put Pynn’s grandmother and her sibling in an orphanage; 7:50 talks about how Dr. Grenfell inspired the family to get into music; 8:27 explains why he calls his sixty-year-old cousin his aunt; 9:10 explains that his mother was 19 when she had him; 9:20 ask if this interview is part of a course we [Nataliya Bezborodova and Jill Jablonski] are taking; says that there are no ghosts in the lighthouse he grew up in; 10:00 explains that his father became the Principal Lighthouse Keeper in 1951 at Fox Point; 10:38 explains that his uncle became a lighthouse keeper to the neighboring lighthouse; 11:05 explains that he had four siblings and five cousins; 11:40 talks about the bitter cold he faced on his walks from the lighthouse to St. Anthony; 12:20 says he did not feel isolated while growing up in a lighthouse; 12:55 talks about the graveyard between his lighthouse and St. Anthony’s; 13:20 talks about the inspirations of ghost stories; 14:40 talks ...