| Summary: | Various community members share stories about Pouch Cove during Story Circle event. Topics include home remedies, fairies, and wartimes. 00:00 – home remedies; linseed meal poultice for cold and pneumonia; 0:38 – poultice for infections and cuts; boric acid salve; Roy Noseworthy’s mother breaking leg; turpentine from tree; 3:16 – reattaching toe with turpentine; 3:47 – Shirley Bragg’s father reattaching finger with turpentine; 5:02 – red flannel on chest for breathing problems; 5:32 – fairy stories; taking Mike Connors into woods while berry picking; 7:56 - Tom Connors giving bread to protect from fairies; 9:56 – fairy story from Bay Bulls; getting lost coming home from lighthouse; Fairy Lane; 14:21 – Yvonne Sullivan recalling stories of mermaid sightings; 15:50 – asking for war stories and family histories; 16:52 – designation of SUF Hall; asking for stories about Hall; 17:42 – requesting stories about home front during wars; 18:07 – Women’s Patriotic Association knitting socks; 18:39 – holidays; making valentines; 20:02 – sealing stories; 21:17 – anniversary of SS Newfoundland; death of Tom Jordan; body returning to town on Palm Sunday; memorial with names of causalities; Steven Jordan; Will Butler; John Evans; inquest testimonies; 24:11 – celebrations for anniversary of WWI; 24:42 – Women’s Patriotic Association; women’s wartime efforts; monetary donations; knitting socks; meeting in St. Agnes; safekeeping knitting needles from war; 28:24 – reading prayers for deceased members of church; Jack O’Keefe and Raymond O’Keefe; Patrick O’Keefe; 29:24 – ships being torpedoed at Bell Island; 30:33 – newspaper articles; clipping of interview with Clarence Langmead about seal fishery, 1949.
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