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Oral Histories, Avalon Jeremy Harnum Oral Histories, Avalon Jeremy Harnum

Rhoda Hedd

“I was one of the very few girls down in the stage…” said Rhoda, sitting at the table in her home on Pinhorn’s Beach. It overlooks the landwash where her family operated their fishing premises for decades. “I used to love to get the prong to help with the fish…”

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Winterton

Prior to the seventeenth century, Winterton (originally named Scilly Cove) was seasonally inhabited by migratory fishers working the waters of Trinity Bay. At the end of the fishing season, fishermen would return to England with their catch.

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Samuel Andrews

Samuel Andrews was born in Scilly Cove, now known as Winterton, in September of 1877. Known by most as “Uncle Sammy" Andrews, he and his wife Jedidiah had four children: Rachael, Wilson, Sarah, and Nehemiah. Samuel was a fisherman and like many others…

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