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Contributors
Interviewee: Dixon, Mac
Audio engineer: Gray, Tristan John
Date Recorded
Unknown year
Date Digitized
2010-07-27
Abstract
This is an interview with Mac Dixon. In this interview Mac talks about shipping, thrashing, horses, moonshine and rum, politics, hockey, house parties, fiddlers, Steven Sherren the pilot, traveling, Bill Creamer, ghosts, Sundays, lobster, Jimmy Quinn, Martha Walker, WWII, and various other topics.
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
00:58:31
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:10:30
Discussion about various topics including Captain Dan Ferguson, black oats, custom thrashing, country vets, and how Mr. Marchbank lost his wife off the back of a wagon; Marchbank, Captain Dan Ferguson, Dan Ferguson, black oats, custom thrashing, thrashing, country vets, veterinarians.

SIDE A 00:10:30 -- 00:18:38
Mac talks about moonshine, rum at the elections, Charlottetown bootleggers and bars, local taverns and a story about the Marchbanks, picking blue potatoes and killing sheep for meat; sheep, blue potatoes, bootleggers, Charlottetown, rum, elections, voting, moonshine, taverns, Marchbank.

SIDE A 00:18:38 -- 00:26:23
Discussion about various topics including women's hockey, his dad's fiddle, Scottish tunes, house parties, and his dad learning fiddle from the Ferguson's; reels, Ferguson, fiddles, fiddlers, women's hockey, house parties, music.

SIDE A 00:26:23 -- 00:31:28
Discussion about Steven Sherren who was a WWI pilot and once flew under the Hillsborough Bridge, another Sherren dying in a plane crash during the King's Cup Air Race in the 1920s, a story about traveling, and Bill Creamer the country vet being afraid of ghosts; Steven Sherren, WWI, pilots, Hillsborough Bridge, King's Cup Air Race, 1920s, flying, traveling, Bill Creamer, ghosts.

SIDE A ends at 00:31:28.
SIDE B 00:31:44 -- 00:42:30
A second story of Bill Creamer and ghosts, hay presses making big bales, quiet Sundays, a story about religion and how his grandfather went to both the Methodist and Presbyterian churches, local churches, and the Waddells being the only Protestant family in Kelly's Cross; Bill Creamer, ghosts, hay, Sundays, quiet Sundays, religion, Methodists, Presbyterian, churchs, Waddell, Protestant, Kelly's Cross.

SIDE B 00:42:30 -- 00:49:32
Discussion about various topics including hitching a dog to a sled, chewing tobacco for the first time, the DeSable lobster factory, trading grain for lobster, bartering flour and a diagram of the mill stone; mills, flour, chewing tobacco, lobster factories, lobster, bartering.

SIDE B 00:49:32 -- 00:58:31
A story of Jimmy Quinn, frozen meat in the ice house and how he used to live with different people, Martha Walker and her family, WWII and joining the army, Hughie Walker's farm, Western horses, a story of Mac and a Clydesdale, and riding the horse home from Bonshaw; Jimmy Quinn, frozen meat, ice houses, Martha Walker, WWII, Hughie Walker, Western horses, Clydesdales, horses, Bonshaw.

Tape ends at 00:58:31.