Audio file
Contributors
Interviewee: Murnaghan, Lucy
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Date Recorded
2008-09-17
Date Digitized
2010-07-20
Abstract
This is an interview with Lucy Murnaghan of Summerville, P.E.I. In this interview Lucy talks about her family, home remedies, school, horses, work on the farm, her first job, cars, snow, food, fiddlers and dances, entertainment, traveling, Sundays, electricity, telephones, pigs, and pack peddlers.
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:03:45
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:06 -- 00:05:09
Discussion about her grandparents; Alice Doyle, Jim Doyle, Sohpia Doyle, Summerville, cobbler, wakes, funerals, Boston, midwives, Curran.

SIDE A 00:05:09 -- 00:08:15
Discussion about home remedies; sulfur and molasses, home remedies, white sand, washing.

SIDE A 00:08:15 -- 00:09:00
Discussion about the healing springs; Cherry Hill, healing springs.

SIDE A 00:09:00 -- 00:11:20
Discussion about her family, with mention of midwives and childhood diseases; midwives, childhood diseases.

SIDE A 00:11:20 -- 00:12:57
Discussion about the Spanish Flu; Spanish Flu, 1918.

SIDE A 00:12:57 -- 00:14:50??
Discussion about school and her family; school, Summerville School, Jim Doyle's school.

SIDE A 00:14:50 -- 00:18:50
Discussion about horses, work on the farm, and horse races; horses, horse races, bananas, accidents.

SIDE A 00:18:50 -- 00:20:13
Discussion about the first car she remembers; cars.

SIDE A 00:20:13 -- 00:23:32
Discussion about mussel mud, lobsters and fish peddlers, butter, and jam; lobsters, mussel mud, fish peddlers, salt fish, salt herring, cold room, butter, jam, candy.

SIDE A 00:23:32 -- 00:24:50
Discussion about various topics including Annie Callaghan, superstitions, and ghost stories; superstitions, Annie Callaghan, ghost stories.

SIDE A 00:24:50 -- 00:27:58
Discussion about food; food, pigs, milk, cream, creamery, eggs, egg prices.

SIDE A 00:27:58 -- 00:29:40
Discussion about deep snow; deep snow, snow.

SIDE A 00:29:40 -- 00:31:50
Discussion about her first job; cooking, housekeeping, salary, wages.

SIDE A ends at 00:31:50.
SIDE B 00:31:58 -- 00:34:27
Discussion about going to Montague and Christmas; Montague, Christmas, candy, presents, Christmas trees, Santa Claus.

SIDE B 00:34:27 -- 00:36:37
Discussion about entertainment and school; entertainment, games, dancing, cocoa, school, slates.

SIDE B 00:36:37 -- 00:38:46
Discussion about dances, fiddlers, and radio; Cain, Dunn, Fraser, fiddlers, music, dances, tunes, radio, house parties.

SIDE B 00:38:46 -- 00:39:59
Discussion about Sundays and church; Sundays, quiet Sundays, church.

SIDE B 00:39:59 -- 00:41:18
Discussion about taking the train and telephones; trains, telephones, party line.

SIDE B 00:41:18 -- 00:45:00
Discussion about electricity and going in to town to work; electricity, 1960s, power, 1920, wages, salary, housekeepers.

SIDE B 00:45:00 -- 00:47:20
Discussion about killing pigs and food; killing pigs, pigs, boiling pigs.

***There is significant audio distortion from 00:47:20 -- 00:49:01 and the topic is indiscernible.

SIDE B 00:49:01 -- 00:53:51
Discussion about homemade goods and cooking; flour bags, flour bag clothes, homemade goods, cooking, food, Christmas, Christmas dinner, plum pudding, cake, flour, bannock.

SIDE B 00:53:51 -- 00:55:39
Discussion about pack peddlers and life in the 1930s; pack peddlers, 1930s, wages.

SIDE B 00:55:39 -- 00:58:13
Discussion about courting, living in Charlottetown, and entertainment; movies, Capitol Theatre, movie houses, courting, entertainment, Charlottetown, 1939, Queen.

SIDE B 00:58:13 -- 01:00:31
Discussion about the biggest changes over the years, foxes, socials; foxes, church socials, plays, socials.

SIDE B 01:00:31 -- 01:02:00
Discussion about her first trip off the Island; traveling, Boston.

SIDE B 01:02:00 -- 01:03:45
Discussion about all the changes over the years and horsepower; horsepower, thrasher, thrashing, firewood.

Tape ends at 01:03:45.