Dunn, Dave. Part two of interview about growing up in St. John's and living in Makinsons.

Dave Dunn shares his childhood memories of growing up in St. John's, and discusses his later years of living in Makinsons. He also describes his method for stitching up an injured horse with buttons and a shoelace.August 8, 2017 Andrea McGuire and Dave Dunn Describes cure for warts; chalk mark was left on a woodstove to represent each wart – as marks disappeared, so would the warts; 0:25 – brother drowned in Leary’s Brook in 1944; family visited Topsail in the summer after that; 1:22 – more discussion of wart cure; 3:10 – family was quarantined on Mullock Street when brother had scarlet fever; 4:45 – describes characters in Georgestown; more description of stores in Georgestown; 8:55 – describes fairy grounds near summer home; talks about keeping bread in pockets; 10:17 – likes giving stones to people to put in their pockets, to keep them from blowing away in the wind; this is good advice for children and visitors to Newfoundland; the stones also helped with walking around the corners of buildings; 11:14 – memories of school days; 12:45 – describes living on Portugal Cove Road; parents had a vegetable garden there; there was a slaughterhouse across the street; children did errands for them; in winter, they would freeze cow’s eyes and use them as hockey pucks; 17:15 – grandfather was the last general cardage carrier using horses in St. John’s; Dave has kept horses throughout his life; 19:00 – describes various jobs; travelled around the island with an appliance company and marketing company; later started own company which sold items across the province; 1992 was a disaster because of the cod moratorium; knew owners of business all across Newfoundland; 22:40 – loves driving, and “I love every piece of the Rock that I find”; travelled across island by train during University; went across island by coastal boat; 25:15 – “I keep worrying about the future of these small places. They’re wonderful places. They were havens”; 25:30 – traced ancestry to resettled community of Ireland’s Eye in Trinity Bay; discusses ancestry; 26:30 – discusses sliding in St. John’s; sliding in the streets; they “rode bumpers” – they rolled large snowballs on the ground (like a section of a snowman) and blocked off the streets with them, to prevent cars from driving on their sliding path; 29:32 – hooked onto bumpers of cars and trucks to hitch a ride; this was also done while sliding; caught hold of cars and trucks while cycling up hills; hung off the back of streetcars on Long’s Hill; some cars had steps on the outside of their doors; 32:40 – father picked up hitchhikers and people walking on the road; 34:01 – describes slides; 35:38 – childhood memories of Andy Wells; 37:50 – not allowed to visit some parts of Georgestown because of fighting; there were rock fights, slingshots, busting up of windows; 39:20 – has lived in Makinsons house for forty years; describes history of house; it housed people who ran wool mills in the area; Joey Smallwood started a rival wool mill nearby, and both closed up; 41:49 – describes landscape of St. John’s in the ‘40s and ‘50s; “any open space [in St. John’s] was all farmland”; 43:30 – more discussion of house in Makinsons; 44:48 – discusses Crout’s Way path, which stretches from Cupids to Dildo; 48:20 – hunts moose, rabbits, catches salmon; 48:50 – has a vegetable garden; has “pretty well always grown what I eat myself, I pick a few berries. I live off the land, basically. If I can’t kill it, I don’t really want to eat it”; prefers catching fish in fall – summer fish are “too soft”; 50:40 – has three children and seven grandchildren; also has five brothers and two sisters; 53:25 – describes current hobbies and pastimes; 57:25 – describes experiences of keeping animals; 58:09 – tells story about sewing injured horse up with buttons; the buttons were held together with a shoelace; 63:03 – daughter read books aloud to family goat – “the goat would sit down, just like she’s listening to a story being read”; more fond memories of animals; 63:47 – learned to shoe horses.