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Introducing Trinket Tales: An Oral History Project Miniseries

February 13, 2025 • The Brown Homestead • Season 5 • Episode 1

In Season 5 of The Open Door, we’ll be highlighting stories from interviews for The Brown Homestead Oral History Project. Each episode will take one tiny aspect of everyday life to tell a broader story of childhood, nostalgia, and rural living that we can all relate to. By peeling back the layers of the everyday, we reveal the extraordinary in the ordinary.

Transcript: Introducing Trinket Tales - an Oral History Project Miniseries

Season 5, Episode 1

February 13, 2025

Episode Citation:

Humeniuk, Andrew and Nixon, Sara. "Introducing Trinket Tales - an Oral History Project Miniseries." Produced by Sara Nixon. Presented by The Brown Homestead. The Open Door. February 13, 2025. Podcast, MP3 audio, length: 2:03. https://thebrownhomestead.ca/open-door/s5e1-introducing-trinket-tales

[EPISODE]

EP: ... of course, I was born during the war, so, it was hard to get toys and I remember wanting a doll buggy and they couldn't find one, I guess. And I got a wheelbarrow.

LB: Sometimes, the men would be out in the field working, and the
planes would come in and they'd buzz, they buzz you…
Andrew: Welcome to Season 5 of the Open Door Podcast!

SN: We have new stories, new perspectives, and new voices. We’re still linking history’s continuum to the present day...

AH:… but we’re doing things a little differently.

This season, we’ll be highlighting stories from interviews for The Brown Homestead Oral History Project. We’ll take one aspect of everyday life that tells a broader story of childhood, nostalgia, and rural living that we can all relate to.
That’s the purpose of the Oral History Project - to offer a deeper
understanding of life in rural Niagara, including here at The Brown Homestead. Afterall, we were a working farm through to the 1970s.

SN: Memories of everyday life can have meaningful impact. Whether it’s the freedom offered by bicycles, or heating up your socks on the wood stove during the wintertime - we peel back the layers of the stories of the everyday events that we have in common - to reveal the extraordinary in the ordinary.

AH: Listen to new episodes wherever you get your podcasts, and starting this season - you can even watch on our YouTube Channel.

The Brown Homestead is Niagara’s Homestead.

SN: And The Open Door is Niagara’s Podcast.

LB: I hope I didn’t say anything that I shouldn’ve.

SN: I think you've said exactly the things you're supposed to….

LB … So I shouldn't lose any sleep tonight eh.

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