Francis, Carman. Interview with Carman Francis about his childhood memories, growing up in the community, schooling, special events, community changes, and local remedies.

• Main Author: Harrington, Julia
• Other Authors: Francis, Carman
• Format: Moving Image (Video)
• Language: English
• Published: 2005
• Subjects: Work; Towns; Schools; Clothes; Ghost stories; Houses; Migration/settlement; Remedies; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/ich_avalon/id/8728

Carman Francis talks about growing up in New Chelsea, his occupation as a chef, schooling system and changes in education, clothing, foodways and preserving foods during his childhood. He also shares some of the ghost stories he heard from older people in the community and some of his experiences. He also identifies some of the changes in housing patterns, recent migration of local people to other states, and also briefly about local remedies and modern medicines. 00:07-00:40 born and raised in New Chelsea, lived all his life in New Chelsea, was a ship's cook for 20 years, retired in 1995, have 2 sisters; 00:47-03:16 school life in the same community, showed the picture of his school kindergarten to grade level, school closed in the late 1960s like 1968 or 1970 because the education system changed, the school is now renovated as the New Chelsea community center, favorite subject is science and literature, hate geometry; 03:23- 05:46 most of the people were fishermen when he was growing up, it was hard time before confederation, there was no fridges to preserve and hard to sell or trade foods, people grew vegetables like carrot, onions, cabbages; 05:51- 07:18 clothing, footwears and shopping were done mostly through the catalogue, sometimes there was a chance to go to the Carbonear for shopping; 07:37- 11:07 special foods, on Sunday one may have little extra food like roast beef or lamb, his father had a couple of cattle, he took care of the cattle; 11:12- 12:43 he had his own games, Christmas events, large parade, the church arranged picnic in the summer, listening ghost stories from older peoples, now it’s not in practice because there is tv and personal phone, people would come then and children’s sat round the table listening to the elders for ghost stories; 12:49- 16:06 ghost story about a lady without head, story about a horse when the wind came up and it appeared, old house story, experiences of ghost feeling at the Middle Porch, shares a story of experiencing ghost around his head during a night when he ...