Tom Mitchell, Virginia Mitchell

Section A

 

Audio 1

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

Audio 2

preserved house, names of parts of the island

Audio 3

baking bread and other goods, taxiing, trips to town

Audio 4

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

Audio 5

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

Audio 6

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

Audio 7

cousins, genealogy, getting fish, getting ice

Audio 8

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

Audio 9

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

Audio 10

cows, garden and canning, lard, salvaging wrecks

Audio 11

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

Section B

 

Audio 1

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

Audio 2

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

Audio 3

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

Audio 4

people in their class, birdwalks and birdwatching

Audio 5

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

Audio 6

basketball games building community, more opportunity, self-sufficient