SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:02:10
Discussion about various topics including ice cream and church social events; church socials, church, ice cream, bananas, gum, dolls, apples.
SIDE A 00:02:10 -- 00:04:34
The Bridgetown starch factory, her mother growing potatoes and selling them to the ships that came into Annandale, and where the potatoes were shipped to; shipping, potatoes, potato farming, Annandale, schooners, Bridgetown, starch factories.
SIDE A 00:04:34 -- 00:08:10
Moving to Bridgetown in 1946, Eddy Clay, the ice house on the farm, making butter by hand, and pickles; pickles, butter, ice houses, 1946, moving, Bridgetown, Eddy Clay.
SIDE A 00:08:10 -- 00:09:50
Tough times and how much firewood they went through in winter; winter, firewood, tough times.
SIDE A 00:09:50 -- 00:13:38
Discussion about the world wars, her marriage in 1946, and Sterling MacDonald; Sterling MacDonald, 1946, marriage, WWI, WWII.
SIDE A 00:13:38 -- 00:15:37
Discussion about blacksmiths and shoeing horses; horseshoes, horseshoeing, blacksmiths.
SIDE A 00:15:37 -- 00:16:22
Mrs. Martin's tavern and Farquar Campbell; taverns, Farquar Campbell.
SIDE A 00:16:22 -- 00:17:20
How she met her husband and the birth of their first child; courting, marriage.
SIDE A 00:17:20 -- 00:22:00
The Halifax Explosion, snowstorms, the Hindenburg, planes, and the first car she saw; cars, planes, Hindenburg, Halifax Explosion, snowstorms, airplanes.
SIDE A 00:22:00 -- 00:26:30
Traveling, her first times to Montague and Charlottetown, going to churches and movies in Charlottetown, and going to the business college; business college, Charlottetown, Montague, traveling, church, movies.
SIDE A 00:26:30 -- 00:29:20
Women's jobs, teaching, living on her mother's farm in Poplar Point; Poplar Point, women's work, teaching, teachers.
SIDE A 00:29:20 -- 00:31:43
The biggest changes, with mention of radios; Kleenex, bathrooms, water, freezers, radios.
SIDE A ends at 00:31:43.
SIDE B 00:31:47 -- 00:38:05
Her mother's family that visited from Boston, the Boston area, care packages from Boston, and her mother's baking; baking, Boston, care packages.
SIDE B 00:38:05 -- 00:41:35
Lobsters as a treat, lobster fertilizer, and cod fish and cod liver oil; cod fish, cod liver oil, lobsters, lobster fertilizer, fertilizer.
SIDE B 00:41:35 -- 00:47:58
Her father, blacksmiths, her first and only drink, her fathers funeral and her mother having to take care of the family after he passed; blacksmiths, death, alcohol, funerals.
SIDE B 00:47:58 -- 00:49:20
Deep snow at her father's funeral and other big snows in the winter; deep snow, snow, snowstorms, winter, funerals.
SIDE B 00:49:20 -- 00:53:45
How not many people lived long lives when she was a girl; old age, age.
Tape ends at 00:53:45.
