| Summary: | Community members share stories about Pouch Cove during Story Circle event, discussing topics such as WWII, communication devices; women's experiences, nicknames, economic changes, and practices surrounding death. 00:00 – introductions; 0:41 – C. Castella; Royal Artillery WWII; A. Noseworthy; C. Sullivan; Ed Sullivan; H. Tulk clergyman; Hubert Bragg; Jeff Sainsbury; Desmond Wells; At Rose; Albert Gruchy killed overseas; discussing lists of enlisted men; Art Sullivan; 7:36 – welcoming remarks; 12:30 – introductions; Dan Rubin; Marie Jordan; Sharon Wall; Angela Wall; Edith Sullivan, Audrey Noseworthy; Lloyd Noseworthy; Shirley Bragg; Arlene Baldwin, Phyllis Sullivan; 13:10 – Uncle Ely Langmead’s house; Captain Spracklin of Waterwitch; 15:38 – Ely Langmead turning on light switch at lighthouse; radios; telephones; pay station at Ryan’s Head; 17:08 – Mrs. Susie Gould, Nisbe Ryan, Mrs. O’Keefe working as radio operator; Mr. Easterbrook; sharing telephones; Bill Evans’ phone; party lines; 18:26 – party line for oil delivery business 1966; Gold Needle; Texacon; Avalon Telephone; Millie’s phone in 1962; 19:42 – Ethel’s phone; 20:28 – delivering news of John F. Kennedy’s death; Anglican Church tea; 23:35 – changes in communication; writing letters; 25:03 - reading passage of interview with mother in 1973; life as fisherman’s wife in 1930s; Jessie Bragg; housework; fishery; raising children; 38:13 – women working in fish plant; boxing fish with Mrs. May Bragg and Meg Jordan; cutting ice in pond; Gruchy’s store; co-op; horses; 43:20 – first car, Willy Gould; 43:50 – earliest memories; working for Mrs. Williams with nine children; in-service; heating home with wood stove; 46:09 – doing laundry; making soap; 46:50 – growing up as orphan; Grandmother Sullivan; Grandmother and Grandfather Bragg; dentistry; 48:00 – shared values; social change after WWII; income from Fort Pepperell bringing change; 50:10 – no electricity; warming young children in oven; Blanche Langmead; 51:20 – midwives; Alice Connors; Liz Noseworthy; Liz ...
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