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Synopsis
Gwendolyn Poole Molnar's recollections offer us a rare look into the life of a child growing up in Pilley's Island in the first decades of the twentieth century, before roads, electricity, and telephones connected the island community to its Newfoundland neighbours. Rich with real people and vivid scenes, redolent with roasted caplin and Nujol oil, Tapestry of Yesteryear quietly accepts the strength of past generations as a given and reminds us that all was not doom and gloom in the outports of pre-Confederation Newfoundland.
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About the Author
For over seventy years Gwen Poole Molnar has entertained friends and family with special occasion missives and poems. Weddings, birthdays, retirements, births, deaths, and anniversaries, including the 1981 fiftieth anniversary of her graduating class at the Grace Hospital, have been enhanced and memorialized by her poetry, and at the age of 93 she signed the book contract that will enhance the history of her beloved Pilley's Island. She lived for over sixty years in North Tonawanda, New York, where in the 1980s she wrote a column called "Seniors on the Move" for the Tonawanda News. Her husband, Paul, died in 1990, and she now lives in a senior's facility in adjacent Wheatfield. Her daughter Gail Andrees and her family live in nearby Akron, New York, and her son Paul and his wife live in Midland, Texas. She can be contacted through Flanker Press or Janice Wells, 15 Fleming Street, St. John's, Newfoundland.
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- PublisherFlanker Press
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1897317492
- ISBN 13 9781897317495
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages143
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Tapestry of Yesteryear
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Flanker Press, St. John's, 2009
ISBN 10: 1897317492
ISBN 13: 9781897317495
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First Edition
Seller: Wagon Tongue Books, Linden, AB, Canada
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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. B/W Photographs (illustrator). First Edition. SUBTITLED : ` Growing Up on Pilley's Island '. The author of these 145 pages, a social memoir of Newfoundland, was born in 1915. Read more about Aunt Jane Cook, Poor Clara, chamber pots, Kizzie Callahan, Uncle Gummy, Triton Island, Leading Tickles, Head's Harbour, and Harris's Hill. B/W map on page x . Text assisted by b/w photographs. Cond : Paper wrapper is green with white lettering. Cover photo shows three giddy young belles - circa 1934. Volume clean and crisp in every sense. Collectible ! ! Quote (p. 26) : " ._._. early one morning. Grandma had gone to the well for a `turn' of water, the well being on Blackmore's property. She decided to call on Aunt Betsy and found her dead by the kitchen stove. She had been in the act of lighting the morning fire, a match in one hand, and birch rind kindling in the other. " Size: 8vo. Seller Inventory # 009750
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