Enjoyed our telephone chat way back in Nov-Dec /21 - sorry it has taken me so long to connect again. Still enjoying your little magazine. It was a gift subscription from Susan Herdman, Lincolnton, Georgia, USA. Susan is the daughter of friends of mine, Bob and Joan (Tipping) Herdman formerly of Corner Brook, Bay of Islands. We were friends going way back when Joan lived in Deer Lake and I in Curling and Bob in Corner Brook. Our families moved to also live in Corner Brook in 1938-39. Bob used to push my swing at the Golf Club, which in those years was located in Petries Point, just west of Curling (about 1935-36 I guess). Susan Herdman had also sent me clippings from previous issues of Downhome and some names mentioned were very familiar. Like Kim Thistle and, because Steady Brook was mentioned, I am assuming that Kim must be related to Don Thistle who attended Corner Brook Public School when I did. The last time I saw Don was at the 50-year school reunion for classes 1943-44 in 1993. Seventeen of our class of 1944 attended and I will enclose a picture of our attendees with names, and hope to hear if any are still around. Another familiar name was that of Ena Constance Barrett who was a neighbour when we lived in Curling. When my father retired from the Mill in 1947 and we moved from Corner Brook to Vancouver, BC, Mrs. Barrett kindly gave me a signed copy of her book "May Flowers and Roses" which I treasure to this day. (Mrs. Barrett had a son, John, who drowned with the sinking of the Caribou during World War II, another son Arthur, and a daughter Rose. I have heard it said that John played the piano in the lounge of the Caribou to calm the passengers as the boat sank.) I was going to try and take part in your veterans project but landed in hospital and missed the deadline. My father, Robert C. Hinds, was a veteran of World War I. He emigrated from Kent, England, to Canada in 1913 and in 1914 enlisted with the Canadian army and returned to fight in France. He was supposed to have driven the first tanks into action during World War I. He went to Corner Brook during construction of the paper mill around 1922-23. Another veteran was Dr. John O'Connell, who was a doctor with the Newfoundland Regiment in the first World War and practiced medicine in Curling after the War, serving the area of Curling, Irishtown, Summerside, Meadows, Cox's Cove, Woods Island, Bottle Cove, Lark Harbour, Mount Moriah, Petries, Curling East, etc. boat, car and horse-drawn buggy across the ice to visit patients at home throughout the Bay of Islands. This information was shared with me by his son, Dr. Charlie O'Connell, Kingston, Ontario, but I also knew the doctor because he was our doctor when we lived in Curling in 1928-1939 and in Corner Brook to 1947. I have a small ashtray, copper, made in honour of something at the Mill in August '25. It says "Corner Brook Dependable Newsprint" Newfoundland Power and Paper Company, Ltd. August 24th, 1925. Any more around I wonder? (I think the Mill opened in 1924 because I did send a picture of the opening of those attending taken on the steps of the Glynmill Inn in 1924 to the Downhome [March 2020].) Looking forward to more issues of your magazine Sincerely, Betty (Hinds) Van Wijlen Beaconsfield, QC   Submitted By: NULL