Audio file
Contributors
Interviewee: Macdonald, David
Interviewee: MacDonald, Donald
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Date Recorded
2010-01-18
Date Digitized
2010-07-15
Abstract
This is an interview with Donald and David MacDonald, brothers from Kinross, P.E.I. In this interview the MacDonald brothers talk about cobblers, cars, family, Christmas, apples, farming, horses, superstitions, potatoes, moonshine and liquor, pigs, cattle, thrashing, the SS Harland, homemade goods, tractors, their father Murdoch MacDonald, mussel mud, milk, Wellington MacNeill, and various other topics.
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:03:10
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:06 -- 00:01:29
Discussion about a cobbler named Peter Finley MacDonald; Peter Finley MacDonald, cobbler, shoes, Orwell, tanners, boots.

SIDE A 00:01:29 -- 00:02:44
Discussion about various topics including cars, the 1929 earthquake, and traveling to Charlottetown; Charlottetown, cars.

SIDE A 00:02:44 -- 00:05:29
Discussion about their family, with mention of their sisters working in Boston; MacDonald, Boston, clothes.

SIDE A 00:05:29 -- 00:11:37
Discussion about Christmas, their apple orchard, and farming; Christmas, Christmas trees, Santa Claus, apples, apple orchard, apple varieties, Ben Davis apples, cattle, calves, pigs, pig feed, mangles.

SIDE A 00:11:37 -- 00:15:03
Discussion about black oats, horse breeding, and superstitions; black oats, horse feed, stallions, traveling men, horse breeding, superstitions, butchering, phases of the moon.

SIDE A 00:15:03 -- 00:16:04
Discussion about horses; horses, driving horses, traveling.

SIDE A 00:16:04 -- 00:19:20
Discussion about moonshine, with stories about drinking and some jokes; moonshine, jokes, humour, drinking.

SIDE A 00:19:20 -- 00:23:13
Discussion about potato farming, with mention of the price of goods and gas; potato varieties, potato farming, potato prices, price of goods, gasoline, gas, food prices.

SIDE A 00:23:13 -- 00:26:23
Discussion about bushing the ice, Roy Herman, and planes; bushing the ice, ice travel, Roy Herman, planes, Italian Air Force.

SIDE A 00:26:23 -- 00:27:34
Discussion about homemade goods, flour bags, and clothing; flour bags, homemade goods, blankets, clothing.

SIDE A 00:27:34 -- 00:29:26
Discussion about the SS Harland and D. D. MacLeod; Harland, SS Harland, wharves, D. D. MacLeod.

SIDE A 00:29:26 -- 00:31:04
Discussion about sleighs; sleighs, Francis sleighs.

SIDE A ends at 00:31:04.
SIDE B 00:31:14 -- 00:34:13
Discussion about bartering, shearing sheep, and water witches; bartering, sheep, shearing, water witches.

SIDE B 00:34:13 -- 00:37:07
Discussion about Governor's Island, wheat and mills, and horsepower; Governor's Island, Judson, oil drilling, wheat, mills, Kinross, mill stones, horsepower.

SIDE B 00:37:07 -- 00:39:25
Discussion about thrashing, stationary engines, and beater diggers; thrashing, thrashing machine, stationary engines, beater diggers, Weatherbie digger, farm machiery, MacKenzie diggers.

SIDE B 00:39:25 -- 00:45:03
Discussion about their father Murdoch MacDonald and the animals they had on the farm, with a brief mention of the MacPhails at the start; MacPhail, MacPhail Homestead, Murdoch MacDonald, church, horses, Bruce Dawson, veterinarians, Tansy Tea.

SIDE B 00:45:03 -- 00:48:02
Discussion about foxes and tractors; tractors, foxes, Farmall tractors, Joe Smith, tractor dealership.

SIDE B 00:48:02 -- 00:51:28
Discussion about cattle buyers Wellington MacNeill and Matt Wood; Wellington MacNeill, cattle, Matt Wood, cattle buyers, stout.

SIDE B 00:51:28 -- 00:53:24
Discussion about liquor books; beer, stout, liquor scripts, liquor, 1948.

SIDE B 00:53:24 -- 00:54:45
Discussion about Western horses; Western horses, horses, horse races.

SIDE B 00:54:45 -- 00:55:47
Discussion about Wellington MacNeill continues, with a discussion about tobacco; Wellington MacNeill, cattle buyers, tobacco, twist tobacco, chewing tobacco.

SIDE B 00:55:47 -- 00:59:46
Discussion about milk and mussel mud; milk, milk cans, mussel mud, soil.

SIDE B 00:59:46 -- 01:03:10
Discussion about Paris Green and Bluestone, potato farming, and their land; Bluestone, Paris Green, pesticides, sprayers, lime, plowing, potato farming, Lot 57.

Tape ends at 01:03:10.