SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:06:10
Discussion about Christmas; Christmas, Christmas tree, Santa Claus, hair, present, dolls, toys, bananas, candy, Christmas dinner.
SIDE A 00:06:10 -- 00:08:53
Discussion about her mother's side of the family and deaths from tuberculosis; Rebecca MacPhee, Rebecca Matheson, tuberculosis, TB, 1900.
SIDE A 00:08:53 -- 00:12:48
Discussion about home remedies; home remedies, cherry bark, tonics, sulfur and molasses, salt herring, cures.
SIDE A 00:12:48 -- 00:14:21
Discussion about her birth in Riverdale; 1908, childbirth, Riverdale.
SIDE A 00:14:21 -- 00:17:34
Discussion about doctors; doctors, Dr. Murchinson, Bonshaw, Clyde River, house calls, Phemie Matheson.
SIDE A 00:17:34 -- 00:19:33
Discussion about names and her father; James Matheson, James Lemuel Matheson, Appin Road.
SIDE A 00:19:33 -- 00:20:45
Discussion about school and deep snow; school, snow, Appin Road School, snowstorms.
SIDE A 00:20:45 -- 00:23:25
Discussion about midwives and childbirth; midwives, childbirth.
SIDE A 00:23:25 -- 00:25:23
Discussion about school continues, with mention of horses; school, horses, chores, Appin Road School.
SIDE A 00:25:23 -- 00:30:10
Discussion about the Titanic, WWI, and the Spanish Flu; Titanic, WWI, Spanish Flu, Dan MacPhee, Anita Smith, newspapers, 1917, Halifax Explosion.
SIDE A 00:30:10 -- 00:35:15
Discussion about traveling to town and flour bag clothes; traveling, Anita Smith, flour bags, flour bag clothes.
SIDE A 00:35:15 -- 00:37:07
Discussion about traveling on the ice; traveling, ice travel, 1930s.
SIDE A 00:37:07 -- 00:38:52
Discussion about the Harland traveling on the river ferry; SS Harland, Harland, Orange Tea, ferries.
SIDE A 00:38:52 -- 00:39:48
Discussion about flour mills; mills, flour mills, Dixon's mill, Crosby's mill.
SIDE A 00:39:48 -- 00:41:18
Discussion about the telephone; telephones, party line.
SIDE A 00:41:18 -- 00:43:13
Discussion about electricity, with mention of the 1956 ice storm; electricity, power, 1956, ice storms, 1952, De Sable.
SIDE A 00:43:13 -- 00:45:04
Discussion about basket socials; socials, basket socials, entertainment, Louis Gordon.
SIDE A 00:45:04 -- 00:47:55
Discussion about church and Sundays; church, Free Church of Scotland, quiet Sundays, Sundays, Sacrament Sunday.
SIDE A ends at 00:47:55.
SIDE B 00:48:00?? -- 00:51:12
Discussion about the radio and relatives from Boston; Anita Smith, Boston, creameaters, radio.
SIDE B 00:51:12 -- 00:53:00
Discussion about pack peddlers; pack peddlers.
SIDE B 00:53:00 -- 00:54:22
Discussion about planting by the moon; planting by the moon, phases of the moon.
SIDE B 00:54:22 -- 00:58:36
Discussion about her father hauling wood; firewood, hauling wood, James Matheson.
SIDE B 00:58:36 -- 01:01:15
Discussion about cars, with mention of the Dalton Sanatorium; cars, Dalton Sanatorium.
SIDE B 01:01:15 -- 01:02:59
Discussion about horses and the traveling man; horses, traveling man.
SIDE B 01:02:59 -- 01:03:39
Discussion about the experimental farm; experimental farms, Hickey and McCoy.
SIDE B 01:03:39 -- 01:05:48
Discussion about animals on the farm; mixed farms, wool, sheep.
SIDE B 01:05:48 -- 01:08:18
Discussion about drownings in the West River and the courthouse in Bonshaw; drownings, West River, Bonshaw, 1920.
SIDE B 01:08:18 -- 01:09:16
Discussion about the mail and saving money; mail, post office, money.
SIDE B 01:09:16 -- 01:14:39
Discussion about life on the farm during the 1930s; 1930s, Depression, Great Depression, firkin, crocks, butter, farming, pigs, eggs, egg trading.
SIDE B 01:14:39 -- 01:15:15
Discussion about Lester MacLeod and her father; Lester MacLeod, L. C. MacLeod, Lewis MacLeod.
SIDE B 01:15:15 -- 01:18:04
Discussion about various topics including lime kilns and Western horses; lime kilns, Western horses, horses.
SIDE B 01:18:04 -- 01:22:11
Discussion about apples and berries; apples, berries, apple varieties, raspberries, berry prices, strawberries, berry picking.
SIDE B 01:22:11 -- 01:23:21
Discussion about maple syrup; maple syrup.
SIDE B 01:23:21 -- 01:24:41
Discussion about water dowsing; water witches, water dowsing, Hazen Howard.
SIDE B 01:24:41 -- 01:27:27
Discussion about the ghost of Todd's Hollow and forerunners; ghosts, Todd's Hollow, murder, forerunners.
SIDE B 01:27:27 -- 01:30:32
Discussion about hats and clothes; hats, milliners, clothes, makeovers, Belle Smith.
SIDE B 01:30:32 -- 01:31:32
Discussion about changes over the years; television.
SIDE B 01:31:32 -- 01:35:53
Discussion about seeing the Hindenburg and working at her aunt's; Hindenburg, wages.
Tape ends at 01:35:53.
