| Summary: | Harrison Hudson describes growing up and living in Biscan Cove, Cripple Cove, and eventually Pouch Cove. He is joined by his wife, Doris Hudson at their home in Pouch Cove. They discuss the landscape, houses, lighthouse keepers, food and subsistence, fishing, sealing, school, and community tragedies. 00:00 – paved road to lighthouse; 1:12 – full name William Harrison; 2:11 – born in Biscan Cove, July 25, 1927; 3:40 – trip across bay; Perry’s Cove; 5:10 – living off fish; growing vegetables; keeping chickens; uncle William Mulley raising sheep; 6:15 - father Clem Hudson born in Pouch Cove; 7:24 – Herb Hudson’s house by the school; 7:40 – winter houses in Biscan Cove; summer cabins; 8:08 – gardening; site of former homes and fields; 9:50 – fishing grounds; 10:23 – Cripple Cove; seasonal fishermen from Broad Cove and Mulley’s Cove; 10:52 – Herb Hudson’s grandfather’s winter house; 11:23 – grandfather Amos Rose; cousin Cecil Rose; 11:57 – first settlers of Biscan Cove; 12:29 – lighthouse; father as lighthouse keeper; 13:32 – keepers Charles Gruchy and Edward Noseworthy; John C. Noseworthy; Jackie Charles; Shirley Noseworthy; Thomas Hudson the first keeper; 16:20 – lighthouse site; father born 1900; 17:00 – walking to buy food in Pouch Cove; 17:25 – church in Biscan Cove; bible in memory of John Albert Rose; Reverend Windsor; 20:50 – Fred Rose, grandfather’s brother lost on ice with Henry Butt; 21:44 – Herb Hudson’s sister falls off cliff; 22:38 – boy drowns; 25:23 – church service in Cripple Cove before church; minister Richard Knight walks from Gower Street to Pouch Cove; Minister’s Rock; 28:32 – Doris’s father, Richard Noseworthy; 29:04 – Christmas; mummering; 30:02 – Easter; 31:12 – Back Cove; sea level; old lighthouse; 33:25 – gas light; foghorn; 33:47 – Doris living at lighthouse; school in lighthouse 1946; teacher Sarah King; 39:38 – people leaving Biscan Cove to work at Fort Pepperelle; 40:45 – working on Torbay airport; 43:15 – WWII; blacking out windows; 43:35 – soldiers coming to door; stowaway from ...
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