Sullivan, Yvonne. 2. Part two of interview about Pouch Cove.

• Main Author: Bateman, Shannon
• Other Authors: Sullivan, Yvonne
• Format: Audio
• Language: English
• Subjects: Work; Towns; Children; Schools; Communities; Evans; Bill; Gould; Violet; Lahey; Betty; Sullivan; Kevin; Gary; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/ich_avalon/id/8699

Yvonne Sullivan continues describing her life from Silver Threads in Pouch Cove. She talks about shifting women's roles, childhood activities, university and her career; social landmarks, and community change. 00:13 – mother’s skills running household; cooking traditional meals; 1:10 – women’s liberation in 1970s; resistance to women’s work; wanting to go to university; 2:30 – interest in reading; visiting library; social justice; outside influences entering community; putting on coffee houses at library; 4:22 – skating rink; softball league; first women’s hockey team; 6:25 – cobbying; playing with old dishes at cobby houses; 7:39 – bonfire night; 8:57 – influence of British culture; growing up with English products; 10:00 – supermarkets opening; buying groceries locally; going to town to shop; Bill Evans’ bus; 12:48 – taking bus to school in St. John’s; 13:15 – starting university in English; getting job at public library; 15:23 – librarian Violet Gould in Pouch Cove; Silver Threads building; 16:24 – uncommon interest in reading; 18:50 – interactions outside Pouch Cove; religious separation; Junior Auxiliary group; skating in St. John’s; Gruchy’s store; 20:54 – advantage of slower lifestyle; story about climbing ladder at stages; community safety; 22:30 – borrowing from neighbours; 23:06 – describing the landscape; vegetable gardens; shift in atmosphere; clapboard houses; 24:55 – family’s house; moving house from Cape St. Francis; 26:50 – liming fences; sliding in meadow; putting on outdoor concerts; children playing together; 29:00 – best friend Betty Lahey; fighting over luckies; hopscotch; 31:07 – no streetlights; kerosene lamps; 31:40 – neighbourhood scents; smell of woodstove; smell of baking bread; laundry; 34:54 – ironing; 35:42 – knitting; being left handed; 36:45 – women’s concerts; fundraising; 37:42 – siblings; brother Kevin Sullivan; sister moving to Bauline; brother Gary Sullivan; 39:05 – describing birth; community phone; 40:10 – first phones; party lines; 41:15 – Canada’s centennial; parade; ...