Anna Wasden and Joan Hunter Christensen
Recorded
November 8, 2021
Archived
November 8, 2021
27:46 minutes
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Id:
mby021225
Description
Anna Wasden (58) sits down with her mother, Joan Hunter Christensen (86), to ask about her family's turf accounting business, what it was like growing up in Distington, England during World War II, and the family traditions that differ from Joan and Anna's way of life today.Subject Log / Time Code
JHC shares the story of how her family’s turf accounting business was created.
JHC describes the competitions at which she and her family worked as book makers.
JHC shares the story of how she left Cumbria, England and moved to The Bahamas with her first husband.
JHC recalls why she and her family left The Bahamas and began living on a farm in Florida.
JHC describes her extended family’s practice of raising pigs for food.
JHC remembers what life was like in Distington, England during WWII.
JHC talks about what each of her parents did to serve England during WWII.
JHC discusses how midwives would deliver babies in her village.
JHC describes the food she and her family ate growing up.
Participants
- Anna Wasden
- Joan Hunter Christensen
Venue / Recording Kit
Tier
Keywords
- Agriculture
- Air Force
- baptism
- Betting
- betting on horse races
- Birth
- Bomb shelters
- Bombings
- book making
- business
- Cattle
- children
- coal mining
- dogs
- Extended Family
- Family
- Family Business
- Family Traditions
- Farm Life
- Farming
- Food
- Gambling
- gas masks
- greyhound racing
- Horse racing
- Horses
- Hound Trails
- Marriage
- memories of former times
- memories of growing up
- midwives
- mining
- Moving
- Moving to America
- Pigs
- prisoner of war camps
- Rations
- Religion
- traditional foods
- travel
- Turf Accountants
- Turf Accounting
- War
- World War II