Prince Edward Island (1960)

This is the cookhouse at the fish processing plant in Gasperaux, PEI. We used it as a cottage for a week or two in the summer of 1960. In this photo Edith Bishop follows the infant Kim (about 14 months old here) into the path/road that meandered among the various buildings on the property. All of the roads on the property were "paved" to varying degrees, depending upon their proximity to the plant, with crushed clam shell fragments, giving them a glistening white shimmer that contrasted sharply with the red soil. The cookhouse was some distance from the plant although some shells are visible if you know that they are there. This is probably late July or early August as the Bishops used to spend those prime vacation weeks on the island every year. It is still the best time to vacation on the island as the weather is much more dependable in those months. This is the first family vacation I can remember (I'd have been five that year) and the memories of the landscape, smells and the heat in that building still linger in my memory 46 years later (of course the pictures help).