It's been almost forty years since the massive upheaval of lives that occurred during Newfoundland’s resettlement days. The provincial government thought that people in isolated fishing communities would be better served if they lived in larger more accessible centers. The fishing community of Paradise in Placentia Bay was once such community where the Pomeroys lived. They never bought the government’s argument. They were the last to leave Paradise and the first to come back but only in the fishing season.

Thirty years ago Land and Sea visited the Pomeroys during one of those fishing seasons. Patricia and Loyola Pomerey expressed how happy they were before they were forced to leave Paradise and that they come back to fish because they found they couldn’t support their family in Placentia. They with the help of their older children fished for about five months and earned enough to support their family in Placentia for the rest of the year. To be caught in town without work and unable to feed their family was a frightening future they couldn’t live with.

Now thirty years later, Land and Sea sought out the Pomeroys again. Much had changed in the family’s life but a lot remained the same. Mrs. Pomeroy is seventy-six years old now and widowed but still lives in the same house that the family first moved into when they arrived in Placentia. Six of her seven children live close by. One daughter is married and living in the U.S.

However, Mrs. Pomeroy still calls Paradise home and returns whenever she can. She is still not reconciled to the decision that forced their family out of their birthplace and calls it the crime of the century. Some of her children have summer places in Paradise and go back at least once a year.

Land and Sea joins the family for one of their returns to their birthplace and explores just what it is that makes a place feel like home. This is the Pomeroy’s story.