| Summary: | Mary Bulgin talks about her family, her school days, and the Catholic school. She also talks a little bit about music and books. She shares some of her memories of playing ring around the rosie and attending garden parties when she was young. 00:06-08:13 introducing Mary, she was born and raised in Bristol’s Hope, she talks about her schooling in Carbonear, there was an old school in her community, she went to the school where her mother also attended, she talks about ABC cars, they were a big family, her grandfather was a teacher, they read books from him, her sisters used to learn from her grandfather, Mary tells that the school was not like today’s school, they did school homework at home, there were number 1-3 books, Mary tells that she also went to Catholic school, her sister lives in the United States, they had long desks in their classrooms, her sister’s son is a teacher; 08:19- 11:09 they had horses and carts to go for Doctors at that time, there was no car then, she has three brothers and four sisters; 11:13- 18:38 she tells that Bristol’s Hope was a farming place, everybody used to do gardening, people had cattle, people used to grow their own vegetables, they had their own horse, they grew all kinds of vegetables in their garden, they grew potatoes, carrots, cabbage, her three sisters live in Newfoundland, she tells that in 1921 there was only three hundred population here, she thinks everything has changed, she shares that now educational staff is very available but then they had limited resources, they had good teachers, she talks that a teacher started a new school in Bristol’s Hope, she tells that many early families have shifted to United States from here, people also moved to other provinces; 18:47-24:09 Mary tells that some buildings are not here in Bristol’s Hope that used to be here like their old house, people played accordion then, she talks about their community gathering to hear accordion music, they played ringer rosie game, she tells that a doctor used to come in Bristol’s Hope and ...
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