Foreword These stories are taken from Island newspapers. They describe everyday life in Georgetown through the years and were written by persons "on the spot" who witnessed the events they describe. The names of these reporters were never published. Some readers acquainted with Georgetown may be able to make an educated guess as to who the reporters were. But I shall not attempt this. The quality of the writing and reportage varies, of course, but taken as a whole the stories offer a unique view of Georgetown 's social history. Though I have had to shorten some articles and edit others here and there to facilitate clear communication , I have tried to retain the spirit and the language in which they were written. The titles are mine. The pictures are drawn from Bea Mair's collection. I have also included at the end of each section an inventory of other Georgetown events described by the papers and a list of dates in which I found Georgetown news. These may be of use to researchers who wish to go to the papers themselves. Microfilm copies of Island papers are held in the Public Archives of P. E. I ., Charlottetown , and in the Media Centre of the Robertson Library , University of Prince Edward Island. I wish here to thank the staff of those institutions for their helpfulness. For earlier years when papers were published less frequently I consulted the several Island papers likely to include Georgetown news. After newspapers became dailies I confined my research to the Guardian and the Patriot. In modern times newspaper coverage expanded greatly and so did the reporting of Georgetown news. Still, one is surprised by what was not covered. Evidently there were weeks, months and even years when there was no Georgetown reporter or maybe a less observant one. Nor do I promise that I have caught every Georgetown reference. I scanned the papers only once and probably missed much. I purposely ended my research at 1950 because by then old-time story-telling by local reporters had been replaced by short personals which seemed to me to hold less interest today. Nathan H. Mair May, 2000