Dunn, Dave. Part two of interview about growing up in St. John's and living in Makinsons.

• Main Author: McGuire, Andrea
• Other Authors: Dunn, Dave, 1941-, Dave Dunn was born in St. John's on November 20th, 1941. His family lived on Mullock Street in Georgestown until Dave was ten, when the family moved to Portugal Cove Road. Dave has lived in his house in Makinsons, Newfoundland for about forty years. During his career, he sold appliances and other items to business owners across the province. Dave has three children and seven grandchildren.
• Format: Audio
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Migration/settlement; Towns; Animals; Horses; Communities; Dunn; Dave; 1941-; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/ich_avalon/id/6644

Dave Dunn shares his childhood memories of growing up in St. John's, and discusses his later years of living in Makinsons. He also describes his method for stitching up an injured horse with buttons and a shoelace. August 8, 2017 Andrea McGuire and Dave Dunn Describes cure for warts; chalk mark was left on a woodstove to represent each wart – as marks disappeared, so would the warts; 0:25 – brother drowned in Leary’s Brook in 1944; family visited Topsail in the summer after that; 1:22 – more discussion of wart cure; 3:10 – family was quarantined on Mullock Street when brother had scarlet fever; 4:45 – describes characters in Georgestown; more description of stores in Georgestown; 8:55 – describes fairy grounds near summer home; talks about keeping bread in pockets; 10:17 – likes giving stones to people to put in their pockets, to keep them from blowing away in the wind; this is good advice for children and visitors to Newfoundland; the stones also helped with walking around the corners of buildings; 11:14 – memories of school days; 12:45 – describes living on Portugal Cove Road; parents had a vegetable garden there; there was a slaughterhouse across the street; children did errands for them; in winter, they would freeze cow’s eyes and use them as hockey pucks; 17:15 – grandfather was the last general cardage carrier using horses in St. John’s; Dave has kept horses throughout his life; 19:00 – describes various jobs; travelled around the island with an appliance company and marketing company; later started own company which sold items across the province; 1992 was a disaster because of the cod moratorium; knew owners of business all across Newfoundland; 22:40 – loves driving, and “I love every piece of the Rock that I find”; travelled across island by train during University; went across island by coastal boat; 25:15 – “I keep worrying about the future of these small places. They’re wonderful places. They were havens”; 25:30 – traced ancestry to resettled community of Ireland’s Eye in Trinity Bay; discusses ...