Art of Edwin Bishop
By using rhymes and paintings, I hope I give you a good idea of the way that boys and girls played years ago, before there were televisions, video games and computers. Busy Boys There were toys to make Hay to rake Whistles to whittle Tin can for a kettle Rubber […]
This book contains copies of 16 of my most recent pictures that I like to call memory paintings. Each painting is accompanied by a short story of what the painting is about and why I painted it. While most of the stories are about things that I remember, I did […]
Cod liver was a byproduct of the cod trap fishery. Every fishing stage had a bunch of barrels that were there to hold the liver that came out of the fish during the splitting process. There was a hole in the splitting table that had a chute so that the liver could […]
Every outport community had a favorite swimming hole. They were usually sandy or pebbly areas at nearby ponds or beaches. In Heart’s Delight there was Main brook pond was a highly favored spot. The shallow area near the beach was a safe place for the very young or beginners. The […]
One of the favourite things for children to play years ago was called playing boats. Children spent a lot of time playing on the beaches. It was considered a pretty safe place to play, because there were almost always adults around the stages. Many boys made their own boats and […]
Back in the early day there were several sawmills in Heart’s Delight – Islington. The very first ones were powered by water. The rivers were damned and chutes were constructed high above the river to bring water to the mill. Huge wheels called water wheels turned slowly but were geared […]
Years ago fishermen used to use a large metal pot to bark their nets. There were two reasons why the nets called traps had to be barked. The bark, reddish brown in colour preserved the new twine and it also turned it very dark. The dark net was not easily […]
Early on in Newfoundland and up to the time that it became a province in 1949, a lot of small outports did not even have schools. Many of the ones that did, however, had to put up with rough poorly built structures with one classroom that had very poor heating […]
As young children we found lots of ways to play and have fun. There were all kinds of games to keep us active and busy. I believe we didn’t know “Boring “. What was that anyway. One time when my grand kids wanted to know what we did when we were young, I wrote […]