Josephine Dugan
Section A
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mother last person in family born on Block Island, looking at photos, family members’ names
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photos of hotel, naming the Hygeia, Dr. Hadley
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looking at photos, hotel fire
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looking at pictures , farms
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old property locations and boundaries, getting milk, schooling
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different schools, school on Payne property, mother’s schooling, where she and siblings were born, friends on the island
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visiting grandmother, renting rooms
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funeral, typical day in the summer, dancing
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dancing, relationships over the years, island births and twins
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group of people there for the summer, swimming
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dancing prize as kids, sailors at dance competitions
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sailors dancing, winning the dance contest, meeting husband who played in band
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military service, working in the shipyard food service, got engaged in 1943, married at home
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crossing Texas by train, furlough, having a baby
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bringing baby to Block Island for the first time, moving around, buying land and building house
Section B
Audio 1
travelling salesman, teaching school
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retiring and living on Block Island year round, involvement with the historical society, transfer of land
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renting, view with a dredge, island representation
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Getting Senate to approve moving location for gap in the breachway, Uncle Al and his room in the Hygeia and his death, fire
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slept at her grandmother’s in the summer, mother’s importance on her life, Dead Eye Dick’s on Tuesdays, second wind luncheons
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birthday cards, who is on the island, ship captains
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either love Block Island or you don’t, generations of families on the island, friendly island, substitute teaching
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giving up substitute teaching, hopes her kids will always have a place on Block Island, genealogy
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formation of Block Island historical society, preserving parts of Block Island
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saying goodbye