| Summary: | Ethel Sullivan describes moving to Pouch Cove and her life with her husband Gerald, with input from interviewer Shirley Bragg. She describes her career as a teacher, meeting her husband, running their shop, and her social life. 00:00 – Port Aux Grave; university; teaching classes in Bonavista, Fogo Island; wages; 1:14 – pneumonia; Twillingate hospital; 1:46 – teaching Bell Island; Isle Aux Morts; coming to Pouch Cove and meeting husband, Gerald; teaching Harbour Grace; 3:24 – taking bus to Pouch Cove; 3:56 –boarding teachers; 5:04 – adapting to living in Pouch Cove; boarding mistress; 6:00 – house and yard; 7:26 – getting to know Gerald; going out with Charlie Strogners, Elma Strogner, David Williams; 10:10 – dances at Fisherman’s Hall; automobiles; 10:42 – teaching; Anglican Church; 11:34 – teachers marrying locals; 11:56 – female teachers; 12:13 – first day teaching; splitting wood; classroom wood stove; children; Eugene Costello, Harry Lambe, Bob Moulton, Evelyn King, Violet Sullivan, Joyce Bragg; 14:40 – Gerald drawing picture of Ethel on chalkboard; 16:15 – Gerald’s father dies, 1946; 16:59 – Shirley talks about rationing sugar during WWII; 17:44 – rationing sugar on Fogo Island during wartimes; 18:52 – catching pneumonia, 1942; sister Gladys; linseed meal cure; 22:06 – school concerts at Fisherman’s Hall; 22:24 – subjects taught; Friday meetings at Red Cross; 25:36 – being from away; fishing town; 27:04 – Gerald catching tuberculosis; recovery; carpentry; 30:16 – building house; running shop; Gerald’s mother and father move to Toronto; 32:30 – scrubbing kitchen floors; going out with Harold and Edith Sullivan to Club Commodore on Torbay Road; 35:03 – group with cabins, Ed Sullivan, Barbie ?, Bob Cape, Noseworthys, Sainsburys; 32:22 – going to trailer on Saturday nights; park on Bauline Road, Duck Pond; 39:34 – Gerald buys first truck, 1952; drives men into St. John’s for work; 43:43 – buying fish in town; price; 45:01 – stores run by Tommy Hudson, George Hudson; Susie Gould, Uncle Herb, Crowleys, Ron ...
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