Penney, Reg. Interview about moving to Port Blandford, teaching, and the shops of the community.

• Main Author: Barrett, Terra
• Other Authors: Penney, Reg
• Format: Audio
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Migration/settlement; Work; Towns; Politics; Stores; Schools; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/ich_en/id/1174

Oral history interview conducted by Terra Barrett with Reginald Penney about growing up in Hant's Harbour, moving to Port Blandford, teaching, the stores and shops of Port Blandford, and his time as Mayor. Reginald Penney was born in 1949 in St. John’s; growing up in Hant’s Harbour, Trinity Bay; Hant’s Harbour stores and shops; 2:05 - going to university; teaching in Port Blandford; meeting his wife; 3:05 - local stores in Port Blandford in 1971; 7:41 - changes in Port Blandford over the years; 10:04 - time on council and as mayor of Port Blandford [two visitors walk through to view church]; tourism; golf course; railway trail or trailway; 14:55 - teaching career; closure of the school in Port Blandford; number of children in the community; 19:12 - raising a family; school system changes; multigrade teaching; 21:35 - differences between teaching in Port Blandford and Clarenville; extracurricular activities; 23:50 - time as mayor; town council; 26:57 - Roland Greening and Greening’s store; stores as gathering places [interruption where another interview ended in the church and the women walked through the recording space]; local stores; students shopping at stores during recess; snack bars; 34:35 - use of local stores in 2017; transporting goods to Port Blandford; home delivery; products sold in store; 39:47 - gardening; sawmills; lifestyle in Port Blandford.