Audio file
Contributors
Interviewee: MacLeod, Don
Interviewee: MacLeod, Lloyd
Audio engineer: Gray, Tristan John
Date Recorded
1995-02-14
Date Digitized
2010-06-30
Abstract
This is an interview with Lloyd and Don MacLeod. In this interview the brother talk about eggs, meat peddlers, cars, traveling, Vernon River, stores, hotels, WWI, Lyman Williams, radios, trains, Christmas, roads, and various other topics.
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:03:08
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:09:45
What a "Humpty Dumpty" was, bartering, animal feed, their parents, having no money, egg prices, meat peddlers, pork, fruit from the Clark's, and hardware and harnesses; humpty dumpty, bartering, eggs, egg prices, poverty, meat peddlers, pork, fruit.

SIDE A 00:09:45 -- 00:20:11
Their first car, roads, horses and sleighs, buffalos, moving to Vernon River, the Raleigh route, the start of their store, and fires; cars, roads, horses, sleighs, buffalos, Vernon River, stores, fires.

SIDE A 00:20:11 -- 00:31:32
Molasses puncheons, pumps, kerosene, the gristmill, Gordon Ross, description of the mill, Hayden's Hotel, and then a funeral and bad roads; molasses, kerosenes, gristmills, Gordon Ross, mills, Hayden's Hotel, funerals, roads.

SIDE A ends at 00:31:32.
SIDE B 00:31:38 -- 00:47:35
Colonel Patton, WWI parties at Hayden's, shipping by rail, the Vernon River Station, Vernon River, Paddy Valley, their parents working all day and night, loafers, figs, Pilchards, Digby herring, cheese, Christmas chickens; Colonel Patton, WWI, Hayden's Hotel, shipping, Vernon River, Vernon River Station, Paddy Valley, Christmas, herring, Digby.

SIDE B 00:47:35 -- 00:58:02
Lyman Williams that worked for them, fishing, their first radio, boxing, horse races, Aldie Carver, and blacksmiths; Lyman Williams, fishing, radios, boxing, radio programs, Aldie Carver, boxing, horse races, blacksmiths.

SIDE B 00:58:02 -- 01:03:08
A "two way" house, the train station, Christmas, the bad spring roads, and the major changes; train stations, Christmas, roads.

Tape ends at 01:03:08.