Liz Burge from Fredericton Heritage Trust & Global TV arrived unannounced!

 Kevin Godwin with the camera and interviewer Mayya Assouad were both just lovely. Kevin's camera fogged up, so we had to move the interview outside.

They wanted to know about the experience of living in a heritage home (in 120 seconds!). Sure, I said "a disabled, old woman who lives alone should have a twenty-six room home on three city lots! Why not?

 Liz Burge, tireless worker and Past President of Fredericton Heritage Trust is in the background.

The Trust and the city researched my home last year when it was added to the historic register.

I was told by the former owner when I bought this home in 1983 that it was built by Capt Whittier a sea captain from England. When his wife died in childbirth, he returned to England.

The correct story is that Capt Whittier hailed from Dover, NH, his wife was from Lincoln, Me. He was a Quaker.  He co-owned the People's Line, the steamship company that traveled from Saint John to Perth Andover with goods and passengers. Later he co-owned a supply store on York Street and he was the American Consul. His wife did die young and his only child, a daughter, married Dr Harrison, President of UNB.