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History: Guides of Yarmouth
History: Guides of Yarmouth Violet and Dolph Muise
Violet and Dolph Muise
Violet and Dolph spent four months in Birchdale, that is the spring and summer of 1956. Violet cooked, waited on tables, cleaned, washed and ironed. She sewed, making covers for couches, even after leaving Birchdale. Violet made bread and pies everyday, and cooked trout for a Prince from France. The trout had to be cooked in wine. At that time there was no electricity in the seven cottages, there was a cow so butter was made the old fashion way. Violet slept in a little room behind the kitchen. J. Prout was a guide and Fayelene Crowell worked as a maid in Birchdale. Sam Parleman and his wife had to have food cooked without fat. Deer would come right under the clothesline, also tame rabbits. Wages were sixty dollars a month and more money was made in tips. Local people came for a day or two and visitors came up to two weeks. Lunches were made for the guide and fisherman (J. Prout) and they would leave in the morning and stay until supper.

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