SIDE A 00:00:04 -- 00:05:59
Discussion about his age and his house, with recitation of some poetry; centennial birthday, poetry, poems, Edgar Guest.
SIDE A 00:05:59 -- 00:14:42
Discussion about school; school, school inspectors, school games, teachers, Woodstock School, McGuigan, corporal punishment.
SIDE A 00:14:42 -- 00:19:03
Discussion about appendicitis, doctors, injuries, and the old Summerside hospital; doctors, appendicitis, Dr. Kier, Dr. MacEwan, 1916, surgery, Summerside hospital, operations.
SIDE A 00:00:19:03 -- 00:20:11
Discussion about the first time he went to Summerside, with mention of traveling; Summerside, trains, traveling.
SIDE A 00:20:11 -- 00:27:00
Discussion about his family, the Smallman home he lives in now, and hard times; Sam Duncan, Smallman, Euphema Smallman, Thomas Smallman, church, Anglican, Sundays, quiet Sundays, white sand, food, hard times.
SIDE A 00:27:00 -- 00:36:01
Discussion about home remedies and his siblings, with a story about his sister being hit by lightning; home remedies, sinny, lightning, milliners, salt herring, salt pork, alder bark, sore feet, cures, cod liver oil, sulfur and molasses, goose grease, Epsom salts.
SIDE A 00:36:01 -- 00:40:36
Discussion about Christmas, with mention of tough times; Christmas, plum pudding, presents, tough times, Christmas dinner, money, prices, sugar.
SIDE A 00:40:36 -- 00:42:04
Discussion about bartering at the general store in Coleman, with mention of an explosion in Coleman; Jim MacKinnon, berries, berry picking, Coleman, 1903, bartering.
SIDE A 00:42:04 -- 00:42:58
Discussion about blacksmiths; blacksmiths, Jim Brown, horseshoe prices.
SIDE A 00:42:58 -- 00:43:47
Brief discussion about the Titanic; Titanic, 1912.
SIDE A 00:43:47 -- 00:45:45
Discussion about WWI, with mention of friends that went over and Armistice Day; WWI, conscription, Armistice Day.
SIDE A 00:45:45 -- 00:47:13
Discussion about Prime Minister Trudeau visiting Alberton; Prime Minister Trudeau, Pierre Trudeau, Alberton, Liberals, politics, voting.
SIDE A ends at 00:47:13.
SIDE B 00:47:20 -- 00:48:19
Discussion about the Spanish Flu; Spanish Flu.
SIDE B 00:48:19 -- 00:51:51
Discussion about his birth in the house, midwives, Pearl's family, and home remedies; Mrs. Boulter, midwives, home remedies, Alma Sweet, George Sweet, cascara, salts, mustard plaster.
SIDE B 00:51:51 -- 00:54:33
Discussion about how Tommy and Pearl met; 1948.
SIDE B 00:54:33 -- 00:57:28
Discussion about horses; horses, plowing, George Welsh, driving horses.
SIDE B 00:57:28 -- 01:06:39
Discussion about courting, movies, and their marriage; courting, movies, marriage, wedding, honeymoon, wedding costs, movie houses, Charlie Chaplin, silent movies, horse races.
SIDE B 01:06:39 -- 01:08:19
Discussion about horses, peddlers, and the O'Leary dairy; peddlers, horses, traveling man, dairies, O'Leary, creamery, Peter Pate.
SIDE B 01:08:19 -- 01:09:47
Discussion about trains; train, O'Leary.
SIDE B 01:09:47 -- 01:11:49
Discussion about cars; cars, car bans, traffic laws, 1912.
SIDE B 01:11:49 -- 01:13:00
Discussion about tractors; tractors, tractor prices, 1950s, Ed Turner.
SIDE B 01:13:00 -- 01:17:00
Discussion about working with horses and thrashing; thrashing, horses, plowing.
SIDE B 01:17:00 -- 01:21:37
Discussion about hauling mussel mud and stories about falling through the ice; mussel mud, mussel mud prices, bloating, Mill River.
SIDE B 01:21:37 -- 01:25:01
Discussion about working as an iceman in Massachusetts; iceman, ice, wages, 1920s.
SIDE B 01:25:01 -- 01:27:40
Discussion about tough times in the 1920s and the 1930s; 1920s, tough times, 1930s, money, poverty, potato prices.
SIDE B 01:27:40 -- 01:32:50
Discussion about working in the lumber woods; lumber woods, lumber camps, wages.
SIDE B 01:32:50 -- 01:34:31
Discussion about tough times, radio, and the biggest changes over the years; tough times, radio.
Tape ends at 01:34:31.
