Audio file
Contributors
Interviewee: Wood, Ed
Audio engineer: Gray, Tristan John
Date Recorded
Unknown year
Date Digitized
2010-07-09
Abstract
This is an interview with Ed Wood. In this interview Ed talks about horses, radios, hockey, traveling, shipping, family, coal, firewood, foxes, cars, horsepower, Governor's Island, cutting ice, cattle, and various other topics.
Genre
Subject (Geographic)
Rights
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:02:27
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:11:29
Discussion about horses, the travelling man, his father selling foals, their horse team, sneaking into the horse races, concerts in Pownal, the first radios in the area, hockey leagues and the rink, the local orphanage and traveling; traveling, rinks, hockey, hockey leagues, radio, Pownal, concerts, horse races, horses, traveling man, stallions, foals, horse trading, orphanage.

SIDE A 00:11:29 -- 00:19:38
Looking after the old Pownal rink for 20 years, wild horses being imported to PEI, and Ed's grandfather who was a shipper that loaded schooners of produce for Cape Breton; schooners, shipping, wild horses, horses, Pownal, rinks.

SIDE A 00:19:38 -- 00:31:45
Ships at the Pownal wharf waiting to be loaded, shovelling coal by hand, shipping and trading, burning coal, burning wood in the winter, cutting firewood, snow, how much his dad sold cattle for, and not going back to school; school, firewood, snow, winter, Pownal, wharves, ships, coal, shipping.

SIDE A ends at 00:31:45.
SIDE B 00:32:00 -- 00:44:01
Foxes, his father getting in one of the first car accidents on PEI, people trading in horses for cars, the mailman delivering the mail and sometimes tobacco, horses falling through the ice, mussel mud, and tobacco; cars, foxes, accidents, horses, mailman, tobacco, mussel mud.

SIDE B 00:44:01 -- 00:54:43
The family farm, horsepower, stationary engines, his family of shipbuilders, his sisters, his father's large family, William Judson, courting and buffalo robes, local hotels and Carver horse collars; horsepower, farming, stationary engines, shipbuilding, shipbuilders, William Judson, courting, buffalo robes, hotels, Carver, horse collars.

SIDE B 00:54:43 -- 01:02:27
Looking for oil on Governors Island, taking cattle over to the island, eating lobster most weekends because it was cheap, cutting ice from a pond on their property, fishing eels, and finally cattle varieties; oil, Governors Island, cattle, lobster, ice, ice ponds, eels.

Tape ends at 01:02:27.