For this episode my guest is Pat Woodford, a relatively new resident at The Village of Riverside Glen, who was given the best possible room the cater to her love of bird watching. Pat has had nearly a full life of bird watching , starting her passion when she met her future husband as a teenager. Pat fits so much life into today’s conversation - she shares an incredibly interesting snippet of history during WWII, living in Dunville near an Airforce Training Facility, where her father would visit on Sundays to invite young soldiers in training, from all over the world, to come to their house for Sunday dinner. She shares of her life growing up immersed in education, her mother even having received a university degree as far back as the 1920s, and Patricia herself studying science in university, and going on to be a high school science teacher (another rare occurrence for her generation). She raised two daughters who pursued high levels of education, which has rippled down to two more generations. With her husband, she literally traveled the world, from the Antarctic, to Africa to Kathmandu and more, to see the world’s animals (in particular the birds). It was a whirlwind of a conversation, I feel like I learned so much! Thank you to Pat for taking me on this journey!
This interview was originally recorded on Feb 6th 2025
