SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:02:30
Dances, house parties, and the best fiddlers; dances, entertainment, parties, fiddlers, house parties.
SIDE A 00:02:30 -- 00:07:13
Visitors that would come by many evenings, superstitions, fairies, black cats, and religious fear; priests, news, characters, superstitions, fairies, cats, ghosts, religion.
SIDE A 00:07:13 -- 00:08:43
The burning of "Old Man Depression", a symbolic burning of the Depression; effigy, Great Depression, 1930s.
SIDE A 00:08:43 -- 00:10:50
Moonshine, rum running, and the Mackinnon's fancy home; MacKinnon, prohibition, rum, bootleggers, moonshine, whiskey, Captain Dicks, brick houses, rum running, plumbing, rum runners, Major MacKinnon, alcohol, Captain MacDonald, MacDonald Tobacco Company.
SIDE A 00:15:30 -- 00:16:46
Socials and church picnics; entertainment, picnics, socials.
SIDE A 00:16:46 -- 00:19:04
The Roman Catholic and Protestant divide, with brief mention of the Harland; religion, Catholic, Protestant, Hartland.
SIDE A 00:19:04 -- 00:22:40
His mother's side of the family and the Burns family who were great ship builders and land clearers; Mullen, Ten Mile House, Burns, shipbuilding.
SIDE A 00:22:40 -- 00:25:06
Clearing land and how the cattle helped with the stumps; stumps, land.
SIDE A 00:25:06 -- 00:27:32
More about the Mullen family, self sufficiency, how nothing was wasted and how they ate well; Mullen, self sufficiency, food.
SIDE A 00:27:32 -- 00:31:42
The Hughes side of his family and a story about some of his relatives that came over from Ireland that all ended up rich in different trades; farmers, Hughes, Ireland, rich, wealthy.
SIDE A ends at 00:31:42.
SIDE B 00:31:46 -- 00:33:00
How North America changed after WWI; WWI, change.
SIDE B 00:33:00 -- 00:36:14
Hobos, The Great Depression, and poor houses located in Charlottetown; poverty, poor, kindness, Great Depression, 1930s, Charlottetown, poor houses.
SIDE B 00:36:14 -- 00:38:16
Chewing tabacco; Hickey and Nicholson, figs of tobacco, chewing tobacco, tobacco, chew.
SIDE B 00:38:16 -- 00:39:09
Gaelic in the area and electricity coming in 1949; Gaelic, electricity, 1949, power.
SIDE B 00:39:09 -- 00:40:13
The 1956 ice storm; storms, winter, ice storms, weather, electricity.
SIDE B 00:40:13 -- 00:44:02
Flour and sugar bags made into clothing, Alden Birt, and women's work; flour bag clothing, sugar bags, flour bags, clothing, Alden Birt, women's work.
SIDE B 00:44:02 -- 00:47:37
Thrashing and thrashing machines; neighbousr, thrashing, Hall thrasher, Monaghan thasher, thrashing machines, thrashers, farm machinery.
SIDE B 00:47:37 -- 00:48:06
Ice travel; ice travel, roads.
SIDE B 00:48:06 -- 00:49:54
MacFarlane's Blacksmith shop, Blacksmith Lane in Dunstaffnage, and the Smith's at Ten Mile House; blacksmiths, Dunstaffnage, Smith, MacFarlane, Ten Mile House.
SIDE B 00:49:54 -- 00:53:34
Mussel mud and how they applied it to the fields; mussel mud, fertilizer, Corran Ban.
SIDE B 00:53:34 -- 00:56:05
The Charlottetown liverly stables; Farquarson's livery stable, Langielle's livery stables, horses, liverly stables, Charlottetown.
***The interview with Arthur Hughes ends at 00:56:05. The remainder of the tape is an interview with Eileen and Tom Hunter.
SIDE B 00:56:13 -- 01:00:38
Eileen and Tom Hunter tell stories of the Summerside air base; cures, healing springs, air field, Summerside, Eileen Hunter, Tom Hunter.
Tape ends at 01:00:38.
