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Contributors
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Date Recorded
2009-01-12
Date Digitized
2010-07-20
Abstract
This is an interview with J. Leighton Coulson of Sea View, P.E.I. In this interview Leighton plays some tunes on the harmonica and talks about his family, school, snow, lobster fishing, foxes, horses, farming, church, tobacco, and various other topics.
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:04:05
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
***There is some distortion in the audio towards the end of tape.
SIDE A 00:00:05 -- 00:04:50
Leighton plays some tunes on the harmonica; tunes, music, harmonica, Turkey in the Woodpile, mouth organ.

SIDE A 00:04:50 -- 00:05:30
Discussion about learning to play music; music, musicians.

SIDE A 00:05:30 -- 00:07:18
Discussion about his grandparents; Coulson.

SIDE A 00:07:18 -- 00:09:35
Discussion about traveling across Canada on the train; trains, traveling.

SIDE A 00:09:35 -- 00:14:05
Discussion about his childhood and school; 1914, Dr. Kier, Sea View, school, teachers, 1920s.

SIDE A 00:14:05 -- 00:16:11
Discussion about working with horses; horses, plowing.

SIDE A 00:16:11 -- 00:17:21
Discussion about foxes; foxes, fox feed.

SIDE A 00:17:21 -- 00:22:00
Discussion about lobster fishing, with mention of using seafood as fertilizer; lobster fishing, fishing, fishing boats, Allison Mann, fertilizer, lobster factory.

SIDE A 00:22:00 -- 00:24:47
Discussion about various topics including the phases of the moon, telephones, and gramophones and radios; telephones, phases of the moon, gramophones, radio, radios.

SIDE A 00:24:47 -- 00:29:06
Discussion about snowstorms, tractors, and mills; snowstorms, ice storms, tractors, mills.

SIDE A 00:29:06 -- 00:31:59
Discussion about church, Sundays, and horses; Sundays, church, horse and sleigh, walking.

SIDE A ends at 00:31:59.
SIDE B 00:32:08 -- 00:32:48
Discussion about church, Sundays, and horses continues; horse and sleigh.

SIDE B 00:32:48 -- 00:33:20
Leighton recites a poem; poems, poetry.

SIDE B 00:33:20 -- 00:37:01
Discussion about snow and tractors made from Model-T Fords; deep snow, snow, tractors, Model-T Ford.

SIDE B 00:37:01 -- 00:39:06
Discussion about tobacco, with recitation of a poem; chewing tobacco, smoking, tobacco, Hickey and Nicholson, twist tobacco, poems, poetry.

SIDE B 00:39:06 -- 00:41:25
Discussion about various topics including school, foxes, and swimming; school, Marion MacSwain, teachers, foxes, swimming.

SIDE B 00:41:25 -- 00:42:36
Discussion about driving the school bus; school bus, bus driver.

SIDE B 00:42:36 -- 00:45:00
Discussion about various topics including mussel mud, cutting ice, and the 1930s; mussel mud, cutting ice, wages, 1930s.

SIDE B 00:45:00 -- 00:46:24
Leighton plays some more tunes on the harmonica; tunes, music, harmonica, mouth organ.

SIDE B 00:46:24 -- 00:47:51
Discussion about his mother; Edna Barlow, Wellington, Barlow's Mills.

SIDE B 00:47:51 -- 00:50:55
Discussion about radio programs, pack peddlers, cod fish, and Christmas; Don Messer, radio programs, pack peddlers, cod fish, codfish, Christmas.

SIDE B 00:50:55 -- 00:56:54
Discussion about various topics including his parents, poems, walking, and rum running; Boston, John Coulson, poems, poetry, walking, rum running.

SIDE B 00:56:54 -- 01:04:05
Leighton plays some more tunes on the harmonica; tunes, music, harmonica, mouth organ.

Tape ends at 01:04:05.