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 https://blockislandhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/01-Track-01-25.mp3 Audio 2 preserved house, names of parts of the island https://blockislandhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/02-Track-02-25.mp3 Audio 3 baking bread and other goods, taxiing, trips to town https://blockislandhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/03-Track-03-25.mp3 Audio 4 canning vegetables, drew water from the pond, history of who lived in their house https://blockislandhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/04-Track-04-24.mp3 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 https://blockislandhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/05-Track-05-24.mp3 Audio 6 teacher called Broomsticks, penmanship, Luella teaching, learning about birds at school https://blockislandhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/06-Track-06-22.mp3 Audio 7 cousins, genealogy, getting fish, getting ice https://blockislandhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/07-Track-07-22.mp3 Audio 8 ice skating, parents moved to Block Island for work, house as the medical center during winter, building the runway for planes https://blockislandhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/08-Track-08-22.mp3 Audio 9 cooking, learning to cook from mother and father-in-law, picking blackberries https://blockislandhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/09-Track-09-22.mp3 Audio 10 cows, garden and canning, lard, salvaging wrecks https://blockislandhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/10-Track-10-20.mp3 Audio 11 relationship with mother-in-law, family in and trips to Nova Scotia, caring for those with health issues https://blockislandhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/11-Track-11-13.mp3 Audio 12 taxis https://blockislandhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/12-Track-12-12.mp3 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 https://blockislandhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/01-Track-01-26.mp3 Audio 2 mail-order clothes for kids, cross-stitched the Lord’s Prayer, painting by numbers, singing https://blockislandhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/02-Track-02-26.mp3 Audio 3 flowers in the garden, all pears swiped, granddaughter sings and plays piano, basketball https://blockislandhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/03-Track-03-26.mp3 Audio 4 people in their class, birdwalks and birdwatching https://blockislandhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/04-Track-04-25.mp3 Audio 5 Christmas and Thanksgiving, butchering a cow, change on the island, seeing improvements that kids get to experience https://blockislandhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/05-Track-05-25.mp3 Audio 6 basketball games building community, more opportunity, self-sufficient https://blockislandhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/06-Track-06-23.mp3