SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:02:33
Discussion about his grandparents on his mother's side; Callaghan, Monaghan.
SIDE A 00:02:33 -- 00:09:35
Stories from the Monaghan's funeral home; Ambrose Monaghan, funeral homes, caskets, coffins, Monaghan.
SIDE A 00:09:35 -- 00:16:19
Discussion about his grandparents on the McCarvill side and stories about Shamrock; Rooney, Shamrock, Shamrock School, McCarvill.
SIDE A 00:16:19 -- 00:23:26
Discussion about being a part of a large family, picking potatoes around the area and chores on the farm; chores, picking potatoes, big families.
SIDE A 00:23:26 -- 00:25:41
Discussion about potato warehouses; potato warehouses.
SIDE A 00:25:41 -- 00:27:16
Vernon talks about his large family again and their living arrangements; big families.
SIDE A 00:27:16 -- 00:34:03
Discussion about their cold weather, prices for firewood, and big trees and stumps; trees, tree stumps, firewood, firewood prices, cold weather.
SIDE A 00:34:03 -- 00:37:07
Discussion about used and flour bag clothing, snow storms, and telephone wires; telephone wires, clothing, flour bag clothes, flour bags, hand me downs, snow storms, storms.
SIDE A 00:37:07 -- 00:39:15
Vernon describes breaking the roads with horses during the winter and road conditions; roads, breaking the roads.
SIDE A 00:39:15 -- 00:42:20
Discussion about snow storms, farmers putting down a spike strip to stop cars from going near their horses, and when they switched from driving on the left to driving on the right; cars, driving, snow storms, roads.
SIDE A 00:42:20 -- 00:45:30
Discussion about his father's farm and their large barn, their old horses and binders, and grain; grain, horses, binders, farming.
SIDE A 00:45:30 -- 00:46:40
Discussion about thrashing; hired man, thrashing, thrshing machines.
SIDE A 00:46:40 -- 00:47:41
Discussion about Hall sprayers; spraying, Hall sprayers.
SIDE A ends at 00:47:41.
SIDE B 00:47:47 -- 00:48:46
Continuation of spraying stories; Bluestone, spraying.
SIDE B 00:48:46 -- 00:49:35
Discussion about horsepower; horsepower.
SIDE B 00:49:35 -- 00:51:02
Discussion about the Kinkora cheese factory; butter, cheese factories, Kinkora, milk.
SIDE B 00:51:02 -- 00:53:50
Discussion about chewing tobacco and a story about racing an old man; races, chewing tobacco, tobacco.
SIDE B 00:53:50 -- 00:56:19
Discussion about milking the cows and what they would feed the cattle; bulls, cattle, milking.
SIDE B 00:56:19 -- 00:58:35
Discussion about the traveling man; traveling man, horse breeding, stallions.
SIDE B 00:58:35 -- 01:00:26
Discussion about digging potatoes; potato digging, potato diggers.
SIDE B 01:00:26 -- 01:03:56
Discussion about working with horses; horses.
SIDE B 01:03:56 -- 01:05:59
Discussion about black oats, country vets and some horse sicknesses; horses, country vets, vets, veterinarians, black oats, oats.
SIDE B 01:05:59 -- 01:07:07
Discussion about Western horses; Western horses, horses, horse prices.
SIDE B 01:07:07 -- 01:10:06
Discussion about fox ranching; Wilbert McCarvill, slaughterhouses, foxes, fox ranching.
SIDE B 01:10:06 -- 01:13:34
Discussion about a fish man who came around often and fishing in the summers; fishing, fish peddlers, fish.
SIDE B 01:13:34 -- 01:15:45
Discussion about a snow storm in 1923 and trains that got stuck in the snow; snow, deep snow, snow storms, 1923, stuck trains, shoveling.
SIDE B 01:15:45 -- 01:17:55
Discussion about sheep, carding mills, and where he saw his first gramophone; gramophones, sheep, carding mills, wool.
SIDE B 01:17:55 -- 01:21:42
Discussion about gristmills and saw mills; gristmills, saw mills, Tryon.
SIDE B 01:21:42 -- 01:22:30
Discussion about wheat; Robin Hood, flour, wheat.
SIDE B 01:22:30 -- 01:26:20
Discussion about dry summers, The Great Depression, and loosing money on potatoes; potato prices, prices, economy, 1920s, 1930s, Great Depression.
SIDE B 01:26:20 -- 01:17:28
Discussion about butter; butter, butter prices.
SIDE B 01:17:28 -- 01:29:39
Discussion about beef and pork, and a story about selling a pig to the store; pigs, pork, beef.
SIDE B 01:29:39 -- 01:31:25
Discussion about horses, horse traders, and tractors; horses, horse traders, tractors, mining horses.
SIDE B 01:31:25 -- 01:34:22
Discussion about tractors and the first man who started growing seed potatoes; McIver, Charlottetown, convent, tractors, seed potatoes.
SIDE B 01:34:22 -- 01:35:27
Discussion about his first car and a story about having three of them go on one ride to Cavendish; driving, traveling, cars, car prices.
Tape ends at 01:35:27.
