Tom Mitchell, Virginia Mitchell

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birth and movement to Block Island, used to visit before moving to the Island, Grandfather’s house, getting married

preserved house, names of parts of the island

baking bread and other goods, taxiing, trips to town

canning vegetables, drew water from the pond, history of who lived in their house

improvements for the house, hurricanes and radio news, father died of heart attack, didn’t like step father, going to school on the island

teacher called Broomsticks, penmanship, Luella teaching, learning about birds at school

cousins, genealogy, getting fish, getting ice

ice skating, parents moved to Block Island for work, house as the medical center during winter, building the runway for planes

cooking, learning to cook from mother and father-in-law, picking blackberries

cows, garden and canning, lard, salvaging wrecks

relationship with mother-in-law, family in and trips to Nova Scotia, caring for those with health issues

taxis

grandparents’ deaths, not been back to Detroit, driving from Detroit to Point Judith, visiting Aunt in New York City, never met a lot of family

mail-order clothes for kids, cross-stitched the Lord’s Prayer, painting by numbers, singing

flowers in the garden, all pears swiped, granddaughter sings and plays piano, basketball

people in their class, birdwalks and birdwatching

Christmas and Thanksgiving, butchering a cow, change on the island, seeing improvements that kids get to experience

basketball games building community, more opportunity, self-sufficient