Kathryn Champlin
Champlin Farm View
Champlin Farm Cows
Champlin Farm
Section A
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her house’s history and layout, the family’s farm and its shareholders, last person in family born on Block Island
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what it was like growing up on the farm, schools attended on Block Island
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classmates and who graduated with her, dances at firemen’s hall and hotels, meeting husband, married January 1941, ‘38 hurricane and losing fishing fleet
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losses on the farm in the hurricane, staying in sewer during hurricane
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getting mail on horseback, grandfather’s office in house, family’s farm help, Beacon Hill view and tower
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walking across the island, tea room with victrola and ice cream and sandwiches, other farming family on the island, holidays on the island
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dinners at Christmas and Thanksgiving, relatives on the island, grandfather ran on the republican and democratic tickets, family political positions, flights on the island, Ronald the dog barking
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first flight, convincing people to take a plane back to Block Island instead of a tugboat but then the plane had trouble starting
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beat the tugboat by taking the plane, flew to the mainland every day when father was in the hospital, schooling in Massachusetts, Amtrak across country twice
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‘38 hurricane and the war, lived on island during better part of the century, tourism, oldest ferry remembered
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hotel by harbor, genealogy tracking and niece’s book, quilting with different families
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two months on mainland yearly to visit family, cousins visit the island for two months, Empire Theatre movies, building functions changing, certain activities no longer exist on the island
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socials at the Baptist church, went to the Methodist church, baptism, always with friend Claire, going to the dentist
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getting tooth out at friend’s appointment, getting perm at friend’s appointment, father drove school bus
Section B
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birthday parties, boys had a baseball team and brother got front tooth knocked out
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getting a dog
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dog would check on her when she was sick, very protective since she got sick, dog pushes her in the wheelchair, her wishes for the next generation
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fish barrels shifting and tipping ferry, deciding whether to bring a boat from Connecticut
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deciding whether town should build a schoolhouse, building a consolidated school, putting a snake in teachers’ room