Tape number:V05A2

Name:  Robert Stewart

Location:  Gwynns Island, Virginia

Date of Birth:  September 30. 1914

Date of Recording:  November 5, 2003

Recorded By:  Talking Across The Lines

Log sheet created by: Patrica Rose

Item	In Point	Category	Description
01	1/54	F	Born and raised on Gwynns Island& family line
02	2/07	G	Describes canning factory, tomatoes, herring roe&migr- ant workers&fish- ing
03	16/49	G	Bicycle (Hawthorne Flyer)  arrives on steamboat
04	16/11, 19/19	G	Kitchen set, hard- ware transported& built home with these items
05	8/28, 54/15, 9/02	L	Good harbor& 7 local stores&des- cription of area
06	14/17, 20/52	SW	Narrative of people at dock&shipping... ordering goods& home delivery
07	13/08	SW/G/SB	Steamboat ship- ments to wharf ac- counts&ice include- ed&loaded by cart.. mention of 3 steam- boats by name
08	3/56	W	Railway on Ed- wards Creek&haul- ing&boat descrip- tion
09	5/57	W	Building descrip- tion of canoe&ma- terials used
10	12/22, 17/55	L/W	Lively area, raising vegetables, work in canning factory, wading crabs on Gwynns Island
11	26/16	ST	Description of Piankatank steamer regarding food, din- ing room, docks
12	30/16	SC	Mentions Captain Lucus&job des- criptions of quarter master and purser
13	11/58	M	Trading in local store with basket of eggs
14	17/01, 18/29	M	Mentions canning factory, ordering bicycles&captain $60 monthly pay
15	21/45	L	Gardening and oy- stering on island... losses in 1933 storm
16	31/52,48/21	BH	Role of  black Americans as Crewman/stevedores
17	32/25	G	Mentions matches as a full shipment, fruit, ice layered decks on steamboat
18	33/04	L	Adams Floating Theatre docked on island during 1933 storm&good musicals&tug pulls from place to place
19	37/40	L	Additional account of floating theatre by Ella Edwards
20	19/42	F	Wife Postmaster on Gwynns Island