Bugden, Ruth. Interview about Portugal Cove-St. Philip's.

Interview with Ruth Bugden about Portugal Cove-St. Philip's. Conducted by Tanyan Ye as part of a Collective Memories Mug Up project conducted by Memorial University students enrolled in FOLK 6740: Public Folklore, Winter 2017.0:00 Date of interview; name of interviewee; 0:26 Ruth Bugden introduced herself; 1:00 Ruth Bugden talked about her parents;2:53 Ruth said she didn't have special places for hanging out when she was young, because she didn't take school in Portugal Cove. She talked about why she took school in the city; 4:26 She talked about the accent of Portugal cove and her "proper" accent which she got from the school in the city made her like an alien; pity for the loss of accents of small communities; 6:00 The year she was born; 6:10 Ghost stories; her mother's supernatural experiences; 7:40 Her own experiences with token (of death). Her uncle Will's spirit came to her home to say goodbye; 9:58 Her mum's experience of seeing something in church; 10:57 Her mum was a healer believed to be with supernatural power; she was a caulbearer; all the superstition around that. Her mother was able to put away the warts; 12:59 Her mum healed by touching people or using the wedding ring; 13:24 No people talked about superstition about caulbearer until recent years; 14:18 It is said the caulbearer will be safe at sea, do great things, have special power; 15:04 Story that each time the congregations of the two churches meet on the bridge somebody during the week. It happened before the church moved; 16:35 Stories/history of Anglican churches in the parish; 18:32 Memories about going to church when she was young. Memories about the transportation at that time. She had to walk a long distance to go to the church. Transportation was a reason why she didn't go to school in Portugal Cove. The St. Lawrence Church was the old school. Stories about how the church was built; 21:04 Walking was almost the only transportation back then. Bad experience with the buses; 22:45 Love story of Fanny Goff. Teenage girls' group in the church of which she was a member did research on this and wrote a play; her grave; 25:10 stories about dinner theaters. The Girls' group has a very long history in this community. The entertainment and performance they provide. Introduction of this year's theme/entertainment; 0:29:19 How the girls' group is called in, how it is funded. The history of CEWA and GFS and how their name were changed after Newfoundland joined Canada, how the girl's group is related. The girls' group did many volunteer work; 0:31:48 Ruth's work in the girl's group as a leader when she was teenager. Her opinion on the uniform; 0:32:35 The activities of the girl's group when Ruth was at young age: door-to-door cookie sale; parties for the senior and the gifts for the senior and the party hats they made for them; 0:35:20 The girl's group was big then. Now it is smaller. Stories of teenage gossips at that time. Now things changed; 0:36:25 random chatting; 0:36:57 How the name of Windsor Heights was given; Ruth's parents lived there. When she went to visit them in winter she used horse sled; in summer she had to walk a lot. She picked berry a lot. She went to pick berry with her mother and when it became dusky her mum would be worry about fairies. There was a lot of superstition then; people believed fairies would take children. People brought food in case fairies came; 0:38:57 More stories about horse sled. The horses owed by farms. Everybody has horses/cows at that time. People raised chickens, pigs, cows, grew vegetables themselves at the old time; 0:40:26 Another story about Ruth's birth. Her mum had difficulty giving birth to her; 0:41:18 It was mostly midwife who was involved in birth at that time. Then people went to hospital more. Her mum helped pregnant women to hospital a lot. Ruth's own experience of sending an expecting woman to hospital. Her mum was often the one everyone turned for help when there was disease or emergency; 0:44:22 How her mum as a healer cured people; 0:45:48 Talked about food. There were set meals throughout the week; 0:46:04 Recorder broke down here for a while; her story about meals was not completely recorded; 0:46:23 Ruth talked about bringing lunch to school. She also talked about having hot chocolate every day when she was in school. Nutrition concern at that time. Story of women wearing aprons and washing clothes. Stories of her family having the first TV in that area when she was in her early teens; 0:51:28 Ruth had some other entertainment before the TV was bought because of her mum's work