Wells, Ginevra. Interview with Ginevra Wells about her childhood memories, upbringing, and special events.

• Main Author: Harrington, Julia
• Other Authors: Wells, Ginevra
• Format: Moving Image (Video)
• Language: English
• Published: 2005
• Subjects: Work; Towns; Fishing; Christmas; Berry picking; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/ich_avalon/id/8727

Ginevra Wells talks about her childhood memories in Cupids, fishing as the main occupation for most people, her father's occupation as an accountant, and shares some of her favourite literature and poems. She also talks about Christmas, Sunday School picnics, Cupids Day celebrations, about transportation, and berry picking memories. 00:01-00.20 Introducing the interviewee (Ginevra Wells) at Penny coastal senior citizens home; 00.21-00:58 upbringing in Cupids, marriage in Cupids and about the family members (four sisters and two brothers); 01:46-02:16 shares her schooling period from primary to intermediate degree; 02:21- 06:14 talks about her story books, poems, literature books like about Roman soldiers consists of 20 verses, poems about king, tragedy, queen, recites the poem ‘be kind’; 07:03- 07:31 the primary occupation as fishing - most people did when she was in school; 07:51- 09:24 clothings and coats during her childhood, how her mother arranges clothes for her and the sharing of clothes between their siblings, her mother’s beautiful white floral wedding dress; 09:33- 10;59 father’s occupation as an accountant, how they managed their livelihood, talks about fishing when her father lost the job and how her father got the job again; 11:01- 13:26 about arranging food, food supplies from different merchants and buying groceries from store, growing vegetables, potatoes and cabbage in gardens; 13:40-15:27 celebrating holidays, Christmas, Sunday school picnic, receiving dolls as gifts during special occasions like Christmas; 16:04-17:11 home remedies like castor oil, tea, herbal during cough and cold; 17:16- 19:49 transportation, there was no car then, talks about her grandfather’s horse, carrying people for berry picking, walked over place to place; 19:54- 22:03 favourite music, she was not used to listen songs and so she could not sing, her mother’s favorite song about a soldier; 22:17- 25:11 celebrating Cupids day as the historical day of Cupids, memories at Conception Bay and Trinity Bay; 25:49-26:09 ...