| Summary: | Bessy Hillier shares her life experiences in Green's Harbour and about her professional life in the Canadian Air Force. She highlights differences between the time she grew up and present day. She talks about the generational gap, the notion of respect, and helping others is not as widely practiced now as it was when she was young. 00:07- 01:39 Hillier was born in Green’s Harbour on the other side of the Harbour, grew up there till she was sixteen, she taught school for two years, in 1943 for new adventure she joined Canadian Air Force, she taught in the Hopeall and Notre Dame Bay, she is the youngest and she had two sisters who passed away, she had two children, one son and one daughter, her son is in St. john’s and her daughter is here in Green’s Harbour; 01:43- 03:02 she went to an all grade school, the school was from kindergarten to grade eleven, then teachers did not punish exactly, she tells that they used to respect them a lot, there was no bus then, one had to go by her own, she played hopscotch and skating, she says that there was no hangout then like now, she went to the stores and bought an apple and that’s all, there was no hangout places then; 03:11-03:51 importantly there is a vast difference between the time she grew up and today’s children, she shares that nowadays it’s common to hear that children always says that ‘I'm bored’, but during her time they did not get bored much, she used to collect water from the well, bringing the wood and she loved to read books, there was not much money to buy things, they did not have that craving to buy many things or spent money for unnecessary things; 03:56-05:42 most of the people did fishing, her father was also a fisherman, clothing and necessary things were found in most of the stores, her mother used to knit clothes, also her sister did some knitting, sometimes her mother sold some clothes especially mates to make money, they always had their own garden, enough to supply the family’s need but not for selling; 05:51- 08:50 24th May was the day to ...
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