Betty Krazwcyk

I was out here on a vacation

I was amazed and just stunned by the beauty

And I promised myself that someday

I would come back here,

 So I did.

I saw an ad in the paper,

So I told my son about this,

I was totally befogged by the beauty of the area.

I moved up,

I was free.

So I came up,

I lived up here for a couple of years,

I wouldn’t see people,

I got totally involved with the flora and fauna of the area,

I don’t know anything about forest,

 I’m from Louisiana.

So, I thought, well they plant the trees back,

 I guess they grow back.

And I talked about this with my children.

I went to Louisiana to visit my mother

and I stay down there 3 or 4 months out of the year,

I felt assured that the NDP,

I thought also that even if there were problems with this,

I discussed this.

I said well, I’m not too sure about that,

I saw the people,

I knew that that’s where I had to be too.

Moore, Niamh, “Oral history interview with Betty Krawczyk (audio recording and transcript),” Clayoquot Lives: An Ecofeminist Story Web, accessed April 25, 2023, https://clayoquotlives.sps.ed.ac.uk/items/show/45.