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We are at the bottom half of Murray’s Village where Edwin and about 50 of us spent our early childhood. At the lower end was nurse and mid-wife Maggie Stephens who delivered us all; then there was St Agathe and the Mc leans; next was Henry Smith family, and Sonny Joyette’s shop which sold snow-cone and potato pudding, Miss Dorcas and her gang in a small room adjacent to Mr Lee’s Private School; Sheller or ‘Boy foh Ms. Baby’ was on the right (present site of Dennis Joyette Auto Body Shop); opposite Dennis was Percy (Ole Mercury) Bonadie and his family; and above was Ms. Clarke (Anchor Chain) Private School. Later the home of Richards brothers’ Combo; then Ms. Inez and ‘Will’ who got drunk once a year on his birthday, Dec 1 shouting “Christmas!” Pappy Joyette built our cribs, houses and coffins; his son Leo, David’s dad was the village tailor; then “Boots-no-foot” school. Next, Ralph Clarke, (Edwin’s partner in crime) and finally Cl