| Summary: | Lloyd Noseworthy talks about his experiences growing up in Pouch Cove on the telephone with interviewer Dan Rubin. He discusses raising sheep and livestock, crafts; gardening, berry picking; fishing, and the song he wrote about Pouch Cove. 00:00 – Lloyd Sr. and uncle Max; keeping breeding sheep; bringing in Cheviot rams; raising sheep for wool and meat; pasturing in Biscan Cove; 1:00 – selling to Campbell’s Meats; mutton to Portuguese white fleet; changes in market; 2:00 – regional farming; growing potatoes; selling to St. John’s; 3:01 – mother selling eggs; 3:59 – vegetable growing; turnips; Jerusalem artichokes; bringing seeds from Ireland to Spaniard’s Bay; 8:20 – keeping cattle; keeping milk cow in barn; women doing milking; goats; 10:01 – mother making butter; buttermilk biscuits; 11:45 – father buying hay from Sam Hudson; 12:22 – overwintering sheep from Biscan Cove; barn locations; making hay; 13:10 – horse names; horse from Bell Island; free grazing; 14:20 – song about Pouch Cove; 17:30 – home in Gambo; 18:45 - Harry and Ethel Langmead’s old house; John and Birdie Langmead; two story double house; Clarence, Jim, Russel, Harry, Shirley Langmead growing up in house; 20:08 – saying goodbye; Bernie Pickett, Sue Gruchy; 20:47 – blueberry and partridgeberry cash crops; Hudson family collecting berries; Kelly family collecting raspberries in barrels; selling to factories for jam; self-sufficiency; 21:52 – boys notching fish to buy goods; Bert Hudson; fishing traps; hand line fishing; 24:05 – Cecil Rose’s story about record haul of fish; Shoe Cove Island; 25:37 – effects of American presence; barracks; 26:45 – birth date; WWII; 27:06 – working hard; mother working all day; spinning yarn and knitting by night; 27:50 – processing wool; carding; spinning; hooking mats; quilting; 28:44 – father knitting fishing twine nets; 30:24 – song lyrics; changes in Pouch Cove.
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