Digby County: A Journey Through Time With Families By: Fallon ThimotInterviewQuestion: What is your full name?Answer: Beulah Irene ThimotQuestion: When and where were you born?Answer: I was born in Freeport, Digby County on August 9, 1932Question: What was the reason for living in Digby Co.?Answer: It was my home town, and that was where I was born and raised.Question: Where exactly in Digby Co. did you live?Answer: I lived in Freeport.Question: How long have you lived here?Answer: I think it was 63 years in Freeport and the past 10 years in Digby.Question: Do you have any siblings? If so, please name them.Answer: I have 10 siblings. Pearl, Edna, Gertude, Louise, Vesta, Raymond, Lou, Earl, Carson and Clifton. Question: What were your parents names?Answer: Percy Earl Thurber was my father. Belle Marie (Garron) Thurber was my mother.Question: Where were they originally from?Answer: Percy was from Freeport and Belle was from Westport.Question: What did your parents do work wise?Answer: My father was a fisherman, and my mother worked in the factory (fishplant) Connor Brothers, and she sold Avon for a number of years and she was also a house wife for 11 kids and a husband.Question: What was your house like?Answer: It was just an ordinary house, well kept, had an outhouse and later had indoor plumbing, as soon as hydro was brought to the island we had it, and we were also the first people on the island to have an electric washing machine.Question: What was your school like?Answer: We had a school with 4 rooms in it, 2 downstairs and 2 upstairs. We had outside bathrooms(then called backhouses instead of outhouses). There was only 4 teachers and our school went from grade primary to 11. To heat the school we had a potbelly stove that used coal, And we had to carry drinking water from the neighbours down the road in a bucket.Question: How far from your house was it?Answer: About a half a mile.Question: How did you get to school?Answer: We walked to school.Question: Did you finish school? Answer: No, i finished grade 10.Question: When did you get your first job? What was it?Answer: It was working in the factory(Connor Brothers) in the cannery and I got 25 cents a hour. I was about 14.Question: Was it hard in your house chore wise?Answer: All the girls had their own chores and you had to do them or you wouldn't be getting out of the house, and if you did them wrong, you'd have to do them all over again until they were done right.Question: How much money did you get for an allowance?Answer: I didn't get any.Question: Was there any big snow storms, well bigger than the one we had this winter?Answer: Yes, I've seen it worse than that. Pretty close to the tops of the telephone poles. There were no snow plows. The men had to shovel the roads and they had their own section to shovel and if it wasn't done, you'd get fined.Question: When you were a teenager, what did you do in your spare time?Answer: Spare time... we used to have a club called BYPU. It was a church club. I used to go to church and sunday school every Sunday, and every summer, they'd have a big picnic over at Will Pyne's farm and uh.. we used to have 3-legged races and sac races and they would have a scramble for candy. I also used to go to the movies Friday and Saturday night and after the movies were done, there would be dances. There was no liquor served at those dances at the time. And the music we listen to was tapes. In the summer time when i was a kid, i stowed hay for local farmers. I also used to drive with the milk man Carmen Mase, he drove so slow that he wouldnt get the job all finished in one day. We went strawberry, blueberry and blackberry picking in the summer. In back of my house was a hill, a grass field and you could walk back and up over the hill there was a rock where you could see both bays and all over Freeport and now the hill is all full of alders and if you tried to walk back there you'd get picked to pieces. We went sliding on Crockers Hill down to Austin Weskits store, and we went skating on the brook and Fannies pond.Question: Did you have any hobbies?Answer: No i didn't.Question: Do you have a favorite/funny memory or story you would like to share?Answer: No.