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SIDE A 00:00:05 -- 00:06:55
Discussion about her grandparents and stories about her memories of them; James Curley, Pat Curley, Hamill, 1927, Margaret Hamill, bannock.
SIDE A 00:06:55 -- 00:08:40
A story about a funeral for a cow; Ambrose Monaghan, funeral.
SIDE A 00:08:40 -- 00:13:45
Discussion about her grandmother continues, with mention of home remedies; money, Miner's Liniment, home remedies, salt herring, tansy tea, white sand, poultice, sulfur and molasses, Scot's Emulsion.
SIDE A 00:13:45 -- 00:16:14
Discussion about fish peddlers; fish peddlers, fish, codfish.
SIDE A 00:16:14 -- 00:19:53
Discussion about her grandparents on her mother's side, James McKenna and Ruth Ann McMahon, with mention of an operation in the kitchen; Ruth Ann McMahon, James McKenna, tailor, nurse, cobbler, doctors, Emerald, operation.
SIDE A 00:19:53 -- 00:27:41
Discussion about forerunners and ghost stories; ghosts, ghost stories, phantom ship, forerunners, demon, Father Duffy, Kelly's Cross, burials.
SIDE A 00:27:41 -- 00:29:20
Discussion about her birth in 1917 and the Halifax Explosion; Halifax Explosion, 1917.
SIDE A 00:29:20 -- 00:30:11
Discussion about the Spanish Flu; Spanish Flu, 1919, burial.
SIDE A 00:30:11 -- 00:30:56
Discussion about her father, with mention of his work and moving to the U.S.; U.S.A., Alfred Curley.
SIDE A ends at 00:30:56.
SIDE B 00:31:45 -- 00:36:19
Discussion about her family moving to Detroit continues, with a story about her brother being killed there; Detroit, rollerskates, car accident.
SIDE B 00:36:19 -- 00:38:41
Discussion about school, with mention of going to school in Detroit; Emerald school, Detroit, Kinkora school, Freetown school.
SIDE B 00:38:41 -- 00:43:07
Discussion about potato picking, potato diggers, and hokers; hoker, plowing, potato diggers, potato picking, wages.
SIDE B 00:43:07 -- 00:46:11
Discussion about her wedding and the deep snow on her honeymoon; wedding dinner, deep snow, honeymoon, wedding, wedding dress, Summerfield.
SIDE B 00:46:11 -- 00:48:08
Discussion about deep snow; deep snow, funeral, pitching the road.
SIDE B 00:48:08 -- 00;50:27
Discussion about her life growing up in Detroit; Detroit, movies, car factory, house parties.
SIDE B 00:50:27 -- 00:54:28
Discussion about coming back to the Island, with a story about her first pair of skates; skates, 1927, rink, 1930s, money, The Great Depression.
SIDE B 00:54:28 -- 01:02:38
A story about going to see a doctor about her bad back and coming home to learn her daughter died in a car accident; doctor, car accident.
Tape ends at 01:02:38.
