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Contributors
Interviewee: Farrell, Leo
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Date Recorded
1999-01-19
Date Digitized
2010-08-03
Abstract
This is an interview with Leo Farrell of Rosehill, P.E.I. In this interview Leo talks about organic potato farming, horses, mussel mud, orchards, cheese and cheese factories, pack peddlers, seafood, a cable ferry, fox ranching, rum, playing the fiddle, dances, entertainment, restaurants, radio, fiddle players, and a plane crash in 1930.
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:03:42
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
***Disclaimer - This interview contains language and subject matter some may find inappropriate.
SIDE A 00:00:04 -- 00:15:23
Discussion about organic potato farming, with mention of plowing, planting, workers, and buyers; organic, potatoes, potato farming, plowing, potato varieties, potato planting, potato buyers, potato prices, fertilizer, chemicals, potato digging, summer vacation, Bluestone, Paris Green, lime, potato bugs, 1920s, wages, Simmons McFarlane.

SIDE A 00:15:23 -- 00:17:39
Discussion about working with horses and hauling mussel mud; horses, mussel mud, chores.

SIDE A 00:17:39 -- 00:18:54
Discussion about orchards; apples, orchards, pears, cherries, Alexander apples.

SIDE A 00:18:54 -- 00:24:44
Discussion about cattle, cheese factories, and shipping potatoes on the train; cattle, cattle breeds, milk, cream, cheese factories, cheese, Harry McGuirk, George McGuirk, Miscouche, shipping, potatoes, potato warehouses, potato prices, 1930s, Lorne Raynor.

SIDE A 00:24:44 -- 00:27:39
Discussion about his family and a story about using lobsters for fertilizer; Isadore Farrell, Mary Woods, Joe Woods.

SIDE A 00:27:39 -- 00:29:17
Discussion about fish, pack peddlers, and his land; fish, pack peddlers, Joe Ghiz.

SIDE A 00:29:17 -- 00:31:53
Discussion about a cable ferry at Black Point; ferries, cable ferry, Jack Winchester, scowl, Black Point.

SIDE A ends at 00:31:53.
SIDE B 00:31:59 -- 00:32:46
Discussion about a cable ferry at Black Point continues, with mention of their car; ferries, cable ferry, Black Point, Model-T Ford, 1926, car prices.

SIDE B 00:32:46 -- 00:40:23
Discussion about fox farming; foxes, fox breeding, fox towers, fox ranches, fox buyers, fox feed, pelting, Milligan.

SIDE B 00:40:23 -- 00:49:14
Discussion about playing the fiddle, with mention of performances at dances and parties; fiddlers, music, house parties, dances, foxtrot.

SIDE B 00:49:14 -- 00:51:36
Discussion about rum; rum, rum prices, rum running, rum running, prohibition.

SIDE B 00:51:36 -- 00:55:40
Discussion about playing at dances, entertainment, and restaurants; dances, entertainment, restaurants, Olympia restaurant, food prices, 1930, movies, movie houses, Capitol Theatre, 1930s, 1940s.

SIDE B 00:55:40 -- 00:56:33
Discussion about fiddle players; fiddlers, fiddler players, Leonard Gallant, Harold Boyle, Sid Boyle.

SIDE B 00:56:33 -- 00:59:52
Discussion about his first radio; radio, radio programs, 1939, radio prices, radio batteries.

SIDE B 00:59:52 -- 01:03:03
A story about a plane crash in 1930; 1930, plane crashes, Charles Yeo, Miscouche, plane rides.

SIDE B 01:03:03 -- 01:03:42
A brief discussion about drownings; drownings, Clark.

Tape ends at 01:03:42.