John H. Littlefield Jr., Charon Briggs Littlefield
Section A
Audio 1
family and important dates, history of the farm, family history and family relationships, the homestead
Audio 2
porch posts for poplar cottage, Carnegie Medals, father’s relationships with his parents
Audio 3
Grandfather and brother received Carnegie medals, family personalities and dynamics, taciturn family
Audio 4
how Edgar & Maud met, house structure with side of house split off, bringing up siblings and working to support the family
Audio 5
building the house, his dad fishing and baling hay, lung cancer and dying and burial
Audio 6
hay baling, the maze/trails as their playground, fishing with dad, found axehead
Audio 7
trips to the breach to play in the water while dad fished, fishing, hunting, eating fish
Audio 8
Johnnycakes and frying fish, names of family members
Audio 9
looking at a photograph, family resemblances, getting vegetables
Audio 10
more looking at a photograph, cleaning headstones, going to the cemetery for “history lessons”
Audio 11
grave plot locations, lightning strike that cracked the chimneys first week of Dec. 1976
Audio 12
storms and storm surges and low barometer, predicting the weather
Audio 13
eating Bluefish, hurricane and building back, sand built up
Audio 14
beach and harbor filling in, driving a cab
Audio 15
people wondering if islanders ever wanted to live anywhere else, having romanticized idea of winter, people don’t get what it’s like to live on the island
Section B
Audio 1
experience of hurricanes, blizzard and plowing snow and getting stuck
Audio 2
fishing, farming and cows
Audio 3
butchering pigs but no cows, garden
Audio 4
garden, interactions with parents
Audio 5
looking at pictures, iceboating, Johnnycake recipe
Audio 6
cooking, cataracts, family relationships
Audio 7
family relationships, family visits, trip to California
Audio 8
Finding the will, cleaning out house
Audio 9
what people in photographs look like, turkeys, deafness and lipreading, playmates (friends and family)
Audio 10
earliest ferry they remember, trips off the island, stoves and heat sources
Audio 11
outhouse, cleaning out the well
Audio 12
redoing house, chimney
Audio 13
safe haven