SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:05:05
Maude talks about her grandparents on both sides of the family, with stories of baby names and Irish tales around the stove in the winter; Irish, storytelling, names.
SIDE A 00:05:05 -- 00:06:44
The names of her nine brothers and sisters; family.
SIDE A 00:06:44 -- 00:09:52
Smoking her father's pipe, and a story about one of her sisters; smoking, tobacco, pipes.
SIDE A 00:09:52 -- 00:16:28
Being named after her Aunt Maude Thayer and her job in a telephone office in Boston; wages, Boston, streetcars, trains, Maude Thayer, telephones.
SIDE A 00:16:28 -- 00:21:08
The first car she remembers; Buick, driving, cars, license plates, planes, races.
SIDE A 00:21:08 -- 00:29:35
Chores on the farm, her father, quiet Sundays, having people over after church, hats in church, and church socials; church, church socials, quiet Sundays, Sundays, chores, hats.
SIDE A 00:29:35 -- 00:36:05
Her mother and her home remedies; plaster, sulfur and molasses, midwives, home remedies.
SIDE A 00:36:05 -- 00:42:18
Her family farm and what kind of animals they kept, what they would cook for Christmas supper, and her old apartment; farming, animals, Christmas, Christmas dinner, apartments, boarding.
SIDE A 00:42:18 -- 00:46:58
Trading eggs for goods at the local store and her father going in to Summerside to buy the winter supplies and coming home with presents and candy; candy, presents, winter, Summerside, bartering, eggs, egg trading.
SIDE A 00:46:58 -- 00:47:17
Going to school and being her mother's best helper; chores, school.
SIDE A ends at 00:47:17.
SIDE B 00:47:25 -- 00:49:33
Baking with mom and the many different kinds of cakes and cookies they would make; baking, cooking, cakes, cookies.
SIDE B 00:49:33 -- 00:50:40
The death of her son Ingham; death, funerals.
SIDE B 00:50:40 -- 00:53:20
Jobs for women, picking potatoes, and potato varieties; potato varieties, picking potatoes, women's work.
SIDE B 00:53:20 -- 00:56:15
Discussion about Christmas; rice pudding, gravy, turkey, presents, Christmas, Christmas dinner.
SIDE B 00:56:15 -- 01:00:05
The farm, watering the animals, getting milk from the cows to make butter in Tyne Valley, and horses; horses, Tyne Valley, butter, milk, farming.
SIDE B 01:00:05 -- 01:01:30
Skating and other activities you couldn't do on Sundays and playing the organ and singing; singing, organ, Sundays, quiet Sundays, skating.
SIDE B 01:01:30 -- 01:06:24
Working in Boston and giving up her job when she became pregnant; Boston, emigration.
SIDE B 01:06:24 -- 01:07:40
Picking berries; raspberries, strawberries, berry picking.
SIDE B 01:07:40 -- 01:08:35
Her mother would save eggs for the winter by storing them in oats within a crock; oats, eggs, winter.
SIDE B 01:08:35 -- 01:11:21
Her father storing ice in sawdust and saving fisht for the winter; salt fish, cod liver oil, Epsom salts, fish, winter, ice, sawdust.
SIDE B 01:11:21 -- 01:14:18
Her memories of the Titanic, the first World War, local boys who died, and the Halifax Explosion; WWI, Halifax Explosion, Titanic.
SIDE B 01:14:18 -- 01:16:04
Story about mom, the kids and the pigs; pigs.
SIDE B 01:16:04 -- 01:16:55
Her mother being very kind to the "Indians", giving them clothing and pork; Native Canadians, First Nations People, Indigenous.
SIDE B 01:16:55 -- 01:18:05
Fox ranching and Jim Tuplin; fox ranching, foxes, fox farming, Jim Tuplin.
SIDE B 01:18:05 -- 01:20:30
Getting sick as a family and getting better; whooping cough, sickness, illness.
SIDE B 01:20:30 -- 01:21:17
Her sister and brother that came down to Boston and what they did when they were there; Boston, emigration.
SIDE B 01:21:17 -- 01:22:25
The Women's Institute; Women's Institute.
SIDE B 01:22:25 -- 01:28:20
Tractors and farm machinery, her uncle Josh who was quite the character, big families, and a story about adopting a boy from the orphanage; orphans, orphanage, adoption, tractors, farm machinery, big families, characters.
SIDE B 01:28:20 -- 01:30:43
What school was like for her; school, corporal punishment.
SIDE B 01:30:43 -- 01:34:51
The biggest changes she saw; telephones, radios, traveling.
Tape ends at 01:34:51.
