Cholock, Geneva. Interview about her life.

Interview with Geneva Cholock about her life in Clarenville, her businesses, and traveling to Mexico. 00:00 - Geneva Cholock talks about what made her want to be a photographer; 01:04 - Her house; Her favourite things to photograph; 2:30 - Cholock talks about her photography and music store, and a h...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vardy, Megan
Other Authors: Cholock, Geneva
Format: Audio
Language:English
Published: 2014
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Online Access:http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/ich_en/id/1003
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Summary:Interview with Geneva Cholock about her life in Clarenville, her businesses, and traveling to Mexico. 00:00 - Geneva Cholock talks about what made her want to be a photographer; 01:04 - Her house; Her favourite things to photograph; 2:30 - Cholock talks about her photography and music store, and a hair salon; tells a story about going to florida with her parents and learning hairdressing; 7:30 - Talks about owning a General Store and moving back to Clarenville; talks about other businesses they owned in the community; 9:04 - The General store at Christmas; what they sold at the store; 10:55 - Her son, Chick [Terence], taking over the general store and her getting out of the business. siness; 12:15 - Cholock talks about her brother’s businesses; Tells a story about telling Philip Mercer to turn down the music at his business; 15:00 - Cholock talks about what they did for fun, talks about a summer picnic with games and candy; 17:22 - Tells a story about a organ and someone stealing it; 18:55 - Talks more about the picnic, singing music and other activities. Briefly talks about the singing game King William was King George’s son; 20:15 - Talks about Pirates; Sheila Negeira; 22:22 - Cholock talks about how when she was born Clarenville was called Red Beach; Talks about the railway and fighting forest fires. Tells story about people being evacuated because of the forest fires and she was working in the darkroom developing pictures; 25:45 - Going to Mexico to write and paint; memories of Mexico; 27:55 - Tells story of being told all Canadians had to go to the embassy in Mexico City; 35:07 - Tells story about meeting a teacher in Mexico and going through customs.