IMAGE CITATION
Date: 1930 - 1939
Subject:
Orignal Work:
Place: Lequille, NS, at the house of Evangline Francis Pictou
Ownership/Collection: Collection of Evangeline Francis Pictou and Irene Sexton
Source: Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax
Reference Number: P113/ 2000.4.26/ N-18,088
Image Use: Free for personal research and non-commercial educational use.
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IMAGE INFORMATION
In 1998, Robert Joudrey of Blockhouse, NS, reminisced about Joe Penall. "I barely remember him back in the 1930s playing in the washroom lobby at the then Lun[enburg] Co. Exhibition. He had a little can attached to his belt, I believe, and I can recall if you didn't drop a coin in it he'd just sit and grin at you. One of my great Uncles from the Veinot family who thought he could step dance, walked in and said, 'Mr. Penall, you play' -- I believe he asked for Lord MacDonald's Reel -- "...and I'll do a little step for you," and Joe obliged. Some years ago while playing at the Ex. in Bear River I mentioned about Joe and that he is talked about yet today; a young man came up to me so pleased that I knew a bit about him, he also said he was a Pictou, a distant relative of Joe's wife. Small world, isn't it....Thanking you very kindly for now, Robert E. Joudrey." [R.E. Joudrey to Paul Collins, NSM, 6 February 1998. Mr. Joudrey enclosed in his letter the music to Joe Penall's Reel.] This portrait of Joe Penall is one of the clearest and best photographs in our collection. Too bad we don't know the photographer's name. One of 116 images collected for copying by Darlene Ricker between 1990 and 1997, as part of a project of the Bear River Mi'kmaq Reserve, Bear River, NS. Initiated by Chief Frank Meuse, the project, set up to preserve the reserve's history, resulted in a book by Darlene Ricker, 1997. The Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax, contributed the copywork for all photographs lent to the project, on the understanding that they would keep the copy negatives, but return the originals and provide the lenders with 8x10 prints of each item loaned for copying.
KEYWORDS
music; violins; fiddles; Penall, Joe; Nova Scotia, Lequille; Pictou, Evangeline; houses
