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Rose Blanche , my home town, is a small community on the southwest coast of Newfoundland about an half hour drive from Port-Aux Basques. My father bought this house from another little outport around 1945 and had it towed over water to Rose Blanche. He then tore down the 2 story house and built this little bungalow under the rocky cliffs of Crow Cove. In Rose Blanche there are no street names. our house was in Crow Cove. Some lived in the Harbour, on the Point. In Big Bottom and so on. The house sits close to the rocks in the back and has a ten ft or more high basement. in the front. Needless to say we had a birds eye view of the coming and going of much of the community. There were two large cables (that my father called stays) attached to the back of the house and anchored it to the rocky cliffs behind. Inside were 7ft high ceilings and lower than normal doorways. I remember my uncles who were tall men having to lower their heads to come in. My mother loved to clean and she spent all her time scrubbing, waxing and polishing I remember Dad saying that if we had a bigger house there be weeks and weeks that we wouldn’t see her.

This little house has been in calendars, in paintings and has been well photographed and so I decided to try hooking it .On the corners of the mat I wanted to represent my parents. My father was a fisher man for many years, hence the fish. The heart for love of my parents who are both gone. Their initials A&M. and the cup and saucer for the cups of tea offered to every one who crossed the threshold of our home.

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