Nancy Martin Interview – Sidmouth Dances
Produced by Revelstoke Museum and Archives. Filmed by Agathe Bernard.
Nancy Martin, former Arrowhead resident, discusses the dances at Sidmouth.
Title Screen: Circular logo on a black backdrop. Logo is an image of four waves turning into wheat on the left end. The title “Stories Beneath the Surface” is circled around the image in capital letters.
Interview with Nancy Martin – a white women with short grey hair, wearing a navy blue zip-up sweater. She is sitting in the kitchen area of the exhibit with artifacts and wallpaper behind her.
Revelstoke Museum and Archives logo in the bottom right hand corner.
Transcript of Narration:
[Begins with Nancy speaking; cuts to photograph of people dancing in the hall]
A few times a year there would be a dance at Sidmouth, in the, in the Sidmouth Hall and everybody got to go.
[Nancy speaking]
Like, there was no such thing as leaving the children home with the babysitter.
[Photograph of people dancing in the hall; cuts back to Nancy speaking]
We all went and everybody you know danced and danced and the kids were put to sleep in the back room and the parents would maybe go home at two in the morning hauling their sleeping children.
[Video fades to black]