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May 14, 2013
May 13, 2013
DEATH BY ELECTRIC CHAIR?:
Encountering the absurd during fieldwork excursions.
May 10, 2013
MORSE CODE:
Mr. Kennedy shows a cable transmitter and transcribes HELLO in morse.
May 2, 2013
Mr. and Mrs. Pande:
The first Indian family in Bay Roberts.
May 2, 2013
HIDDEN HINDU TEMPLES:
In basements around the bay.
April 25, 2013
MEMORY MAP:
Where Richard lived as a young man. Particularly interesting for him to reflect on as his short term memory has been damaged by a recent bout of spinal meningitis.
April 23, 2013
Mr. Greenland, 106 years old, gives tips for staying young:
For breakfast eat 1/2 a grapefruit, 1 donut and a cup of coffee. For lunch have a sandwich and two glasses of gin and lime soda. For activities, build yourself a house at age 80, then putter around in your workshop everyday.
April 16, 2013
EXPLORING ABANDONED SPACES:
The old hotel in the Port Union heritage district, soon to be resurrected.
April 15, 2013
MEMORY MAP:
Mr. Hambling, 85, is an author, organic gardener, and model train maker. This is a floor plan of the house he was born in on Cable Ave., Bay Roberts.
April 12, 2013
MEMORY MAP:
Bart Kennedy draws the floor plan to the house he lived in on Cable Ave from the 1960s-1980s. The home he lives in now is modeled on the same plan.
April 10, 2013
MEMORY MAP:
90 year old Eileen Starr draws out a floor plan of her childhood home for me. This house, which she lived in from the early 1930s onward, burned down in 1960.
April 8, 2013
QUIDI VIDI ARCHITECTURE:
Aidan and Pinky’s adapted church house circa 1830s/40s.
(I finally got to explore the inside of this mysterious building)
April 2, 2013
ORDER OF FREEMASONS:
Ceremonial floor from the 1960s, Heart’s Content, NL.
April 1, 2013
March 18, 2013
jason molina. i’m sad to see him go.
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