EMILY GREEN
Emily Green was born into a family of four in Cook's Harbor in 1924 to Clara Compton and Freeman Green, but grew up in St.Anthony. As a child she would have to bring water using a barrel tub. A barrel tub is a barrel cut in half with handlebars. She also had to bring in the wood as well as spread the fish. She used to wear flour sackcloth for dresses, which were made by her Grandmother. When she moved to St.Anothy her clothes was bought at the Grenfell Mission.
As a child Emily's most memorable moments were at the beach playing with rocks and mussel shells. She also remembered roasting snowbirds on the stove, eating brown flour bread that she says was just like chewing sawdust, and drinking tea with no sweetness.
For Emily, going to school was not very good. She went to a one-room school and only learned the basic subjects, like reading, writing and arithmetic. She had to use slates to do her work on and to clean the slates she would use soap, water and a cloth. In the winter she would have to bring pieces of wood for the stove. There were no toilets in the school, they had to use outhouses. As a method of punishment the teacher would either use the strap or he would place her in the corner with a book on her head. Emily only got to primary afterward she left school because she had a bad eye which made it hard for her to learn. Later on Emily moved to St. Lunaire Griquet and while there she went back to school.
Emily used to be a servant earning twenty-five cents a month cleaning houses. She continued working houses until she had her children after which she became a fulltime mother. Though having two children she never married. Emily considers being a fulltime mother as a very memorable time in her life.
INTERVIEW DONE BY: ROBIN ELLIOTT, CHANTELLE PILGRIM, MELISSA PILGRIM, AND DELENDA TUCKER.(Communication Technology students)