Shea, Neil. Interview about the Fowler House in Brigus.

• Main Author: Webb, Megan
• Other Authors: Shea, Neil
• Format: Audio
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Migration/settlement; Houses; Shea; Neil; Fowler (nee Shea); Sadie; Fowler; Richard; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/ich_avalon/id/8912

Megan Webb interviews Neil Shea about his familial relation to a past owner of the Fowler House in Brigus, his time spent there in the summers, and the layout of the house prior to rennovations. 0:00 Start of recording; 0:27 Hello; 1:20 Introductions; 1:42 Connection to Fowler House; 3:45 Sadie (nee Shea) Fowler; 5:35 Thinking Richard’s parents owned the house before Rich & Sadie took over, his mother lived with them for a period of time; 6:15 Rich had a sister maybe named Madeline; 6:55 Layout of house in 1950s and 60s; 8:01 No indoor plumbing, just an outhouse up the hill and a washbasin; 8:30 Spare room in back on 2nd floor entrance to twine loft or up ladder from store; 9:09 A lot of acreage - grew potatoes, turnips, cabbages; 9:28 Next to kitchen had a coal shed, just down from that was a chicken coop; 9:45 Rich owned a small wharf, large fishing shed, and boat in key down from bridge; 10:55 Two stoves on 1st floor; 11:30 Explanation of layout of 1st floor; 12:40 Second floor layout; 14:56 Sadie approached from Brigus Historical Society about preserving house when Rich went into a home; 21:12 Remembering the pantry, kitchen, and the stairs from 1st to 2nd floor; 21:50 Location of the pantry; 22:00 Kept “perishables” on rock wall in the pantry as it was colder; 22:26 Hand pump in basin in kitchen feeding off natural well; 22:38 Trout in the well; 23:22 Chicken coop for fresh eggs; 23:50 Kitchen had a wood stove, in the 80s got an oil stove; 24:17 Coal shed to feed the stoves; 25:32 Location of wood stoves; 36:23 Memory of his sister’s casket & wake held at Fowler house 1965; 51:20 Thanks; 51:49 End of recording.