Foulkes Productions

07/23/2025

😢I was booked to start a legacy interview today. If you are thinking of preserving your family story, please don't wait until it's too late.

06/18/2025

Live streaming Curling Canada announcement. Scotties coming to Charlottetown in 2027!

06/10/2025

I am generally not an "early adopter", but this SHOP LOCAL PEI campaign looked like something that I didn't need to do any wait-and-see time. I'm in!

05/06/2025

Final tech prep for the keynote

04/11/2025

02/28/2025

Doing some VHS transfers for someone's family video archive. It's made me wonder if loads of tinsel was mandatory on all trees at some point.

01/22/2025

Was "decluttering" on your New Year's resolutions list? Or perhaps this is the year you want to help your parents with their declutter job? I can help!

01/20/2025

'Stumbling' upon (without any searching) a piece of one's own personal history can certainly be a moving experience! I was recently attending my daughter's indoor soccer tournament in Fredericton. My father suggested we stay at Mary's while we were there. 82-year-old Mary is one of Dad's cousins I'd never met. As she toured us around her home (which was in fact the same home she grew up in), she showed us the family portrait hanging above her bed. WHOA! It was the first time I had EVER seen a photo of my father's father's parents. I had never 'stumbled' like that before. It was a photo of my great-grandparents and all but one of their 10 children.

01/13/2025

Whenever I do presentations about personal history, I like to finish with a quick survey of the room:

1. How many of you can name all 4 of your grandparents? (Usually more than half raise their hand)
2. How many can name all 8 great-grandparents? (Occasionally one person will know).

And then...
3. How many of you ARE grandparents? Now, think of your grandkids. If we continue on this trend, YOUR grandkids' children... They won't even know your NAME. That is... unless you do something about it.

01/03/2025

While working at The Mount yesterday, I noticed some folks chatting in the activities room. Since I had a short break, I decided to drop in for a "pop-up" reminiscing session. As it turned out, there were 3 of them (Mrs. Murphy, Helen, Ozzie) who I hadn't seen in years! Helen shared a great story of being stranded OVERNIGHT on the schoolbus when she was 16. We figured it must have been the storm of '61. She even remembered the driver's name!

12/27/2024

Personal History tip for the post-Christmas cleanup:

I'm packing away the last of the Christmas decorations. See the shiny little green book? It's a "Memories Ornament". Each year, you write just a little note about what happened that Christmas. Just a few seconds each year while you "pack away Christmas", and your booklet could become one of your family's most valued decorations!

12/13/2024

Part of today's ceremony was a re-enactment/testimonies from families who lived through the deportation, specifically in December of 1758. We are thankful to those who kept notes and journals at that time. It's because of those records that we are able to bring the true stories of our ancestors to the young people of today.