Godwin, Bill, Part 2. Interview with Bill Godwin, Barr'd Islands.

• Main Authors: Pocius, Gerald L., Ferguson, Mark
• Other Authors: Godwin, Bill
• Format: Audio
• Language: English
• Published: 1989
• Subjects: Work; Social beliefs; practices and customs; Architecture; building and construction; Cod fishing; Entertainment and recreation; Fishers; Commercial fishing; Fishing equipment; Personal experience narratives; Salt-curing; Storytelling; Tales; Cod filleting; Codfish; Fish processing; Fishing stages; Fishing stores; Flakes; Salt cod; Split cod; Splitting knives; Splitting tables; Stageheads; Godwin; Bill; Barr'd Island (N.L.) > Social life and customs; Fishery processing; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/ich_cn/id/985

Bill Godwin discusses life and social mores as it was in the outport of Barr'd Islands, Newfoundland in the past; work that was done raising vegetables, cutting and hauling wood, building homes; fishing, salting cod; storytelling, ghost stories and other tales. 00:00 Would the men go fishing alone? (No.) -- 00:20 The pregnancy of a young girl would be the talk of the community -- 00:30 Story about his sister getting pregnant -- 01:15 "Hard times, but everybody was happy." -- 01:25 No snowplows, could go across the harbor on the snow -- 01:35 Pigs and sheeps and goats and vegetables -- 01:45 "We lived like kings." -- 01:50 Pig's bladder into a football -- 02:25 Where they got the wood for the stages -- 03:00 Dad had thirteen dogs, hauled the wood -- 03:30 Gave away a saw, house made with spikes -- 03:45 History of the house -- 04:00 A man from Chicago comes a calling, says he was born there -- 04:35 Tells Bill about where it was moved from. Man called Steve Caul. -- 05:10 House over 130 years old -- 05:25 Never touched the roof, 15 to 20 layers of felt (?) -- 05:34 Discussion about the roof, other rooms in the house -- 07:30 Wedding traditions - shooting off guns -- 07:55 "If the girl was pregnant before they got married, it was called a shotgun wedding." -- 08:20 "It was flakes and stages years ago, there weren't a bit of land to be seen." -- 08:30 Reminiscing about the days back then, the way things were years ago -- 09:05 What they would do when it would rain (they would run) - the old fellers could forecast -- 09:20 Story about their old radio they had - big battery, wire from radio to battery -- 10:00 What they would listen to -- 10:20 "My dad used to have a violin." -- 10:50 Family history and family professions -- 11:30 Discussion on building of stage, sons in Labrador, making their money -- 13:15 "That's [stage] only a shell compared to the rest." -- 13:35 "Every year I used to lose one." -- 13:45 "The ice'd come in." -- 14:00 Used twelve-inch nails -- 14:20 "But I wouldn't change it for the world. This ...