This book is the story of a family of Bowdrings growing up on Bell Island. It is at a time when families contained eight or ten children, sometimes more. The old folks back then would ask a child they didn’t know, “Who do you longs to,” to which we would reply, “We are one of Frank and Bebe Bowdring’s crowd." The following takes you on a journey of our family’s stories and memories combined with some historical facts that occurred between the years of 1938-1956. Although the timeline does include many historical references, this book is not intended as a historical document. Instead, it is a book of memories from our time growing up at ‘The Front’ of Bell Island when ‘Frank and Bebe’s crowd’ were just becoming! Some names and incidents mentioned may be fictional and written only as embellishments to enhance certain occurrences.