This blog will show the things I've made - things I can hold in my hands and things that I can see on the screen, and all the variations in between.
That said, the first thing I'm going to post is a transcription I'm doing of notes made by my father, Clyde Siteman. Although the first notes are about his school days in Lower Ship Harbour, Nova Scotia, about ninety years ago, I imagine that they would compare to the lives of many people growing up at that time. Since I went to the same school, some of my experiences were nearly the same as his. I've transcribed the notes as they're hand-printed, changing some (not all) of the spelling and punctuation. I'll place them in the blog a paragraph or so at a time.
My Early Days in Lower Ship Harbour
I was born in Lower Ship Harbour on March thirty, 1909, and will start this bit of recollections of past times, and the way things were done in those times.
I started school at the age of seven, which was the age then of starting school.
My first teacher was a Miss Stoddard from Clam Harbour. The second was Miss Bulmer from Schubenacadia or Truro.
Our school house was a one room building, with an attendance (I think) of about twenty-five or thirty (perhaps more), and one teacher, and sometimes her first job. She was the boss over us all and she had the full support of just about all of the parents, and her word was law. There was, as far as I can remember, three rows of seats, each seat held two pupils. The classes were from primer to nine or ten. In those times not every pupil got to grade ten, as some had to leave to try and earn a few dollars to help at home.
