SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:04:13
Discussion about driving a Model-T Ford; cars, horses, Model-T, driving.
SIDE A 00:04:13 -- 00:06:44
Discussion about being born in the family home, the Halifax Explosion, and being an only child; 1907, Halifax Explosion.
SIDE A 00:06:44 -- 00:11:20
Discussion about her mother who was a Bell from Cape Traverse, her aunt Helen Smith Bell, and how Helen was partially responsible for her meeting her husband; Irene Bell, Helen Smith Bell, Helen Bell, Cape Traverse.
SIDE A 00:11:20 -- 00:13:39
Discussion about how she met her husband, his horse, and what they did on their dates; courting, sleighs, sleigh bells, horses, dating.
SIDE A 00:13:39 -- 00:15:33
Discussion about teaching; teacher's supplement, teacher's salary, boarding, room and board, teachers, teaching.
SIDE A 00:15:33 -- 00:16:41
Discussion about Christmas concerts and her Santa Claus; Santa Claus, Christmas, Christmas concerts.
SIDE A 00:16:41 -- 00:18:25
Discussion about Lower Freetown, ending school early for potato picking, and her first paycheck; dresses, potato picking, school, Lower Freetown.
SIDE A 00:18:25 -- 00:20:34
Discussion about her mother's family, with mention of Christmas; Albert Bell, Irene Bell, Christmas, dolls.
SIDE A 00:20:34 -- 00:22:15
Discussion about home remedies; rhubarb, salt herring, sulfur and molasses, cod liver oil, home remedies.
SIDE A 00:22:15 -- 00:23:10
Discussion about making clothing and just about everything else from flour bags; flour bags, flour bag clothes, homemade clothes.
SIDE A 00:23:10 -- 00:25:43
Discussion about Christmas time; Santa, bananas, plum pudding, Christmas trees, dolls, presents, Christmas.
SIDE A 00:25:43 -- 00:27:55
Discussion about her aunt Patience Inman the dressmaker and the special costumes she made for Hester; Patience Inman, dresses, dressmakers.
SIDE A 00:27:55 -- 00:29:04
Discussion about a milliner at Holman's store, her aunt being very good at "makeovers", and tailoring an old piece of clothing into something new; Holman's, milliners, hats, makeovers, tailoring, Patience Inman.
SIDE A 00:29:04 -- 00:31:22
Discussion about women's jobs; women's work.
SIDE A 00:31:22 -- 00:32:37
Discussion about the Linkletter farm, large farms and potatoes; potatoes, farming, farms, Linkletter.
SIDE A 00:32:37 -- 00:33:41
Discussion about her father; Theophilius James Inman.
SIDE A 00:33:41 -- 00:37:13
Discussion about driving the horses, traveling in the winter, traveling on the ice, and a story about a bad storm; storms, winter, traveling, ice travel, horses.
SIDE A 00:37:13 -- 00:39:08
Discussion about ice boats, her grandfather's work as a mailman, and the difference between winters now and then; winter, snow, deep snow, mailman, ice boats, snow shoes.
SIDE A 00:39:08 -- 00:43:48
Discussion about her first school, her first teacher, provincial level testing, and why she wanted to become a teacher; corporal punishment, school, teachers, teaching, tests, school.
SIDE A 00:43:48 -- 00:46:10
Discussion about her first class teaching in East Royalty, her favorite subjects, and how she taught for 12-13 years; teaching, teachers, East Royalty, school, school subjects.
SIDE A 00:46:10 -- 00:47:18
Discussion about Prince of Wales College; Latin, Prince of Wales College, univeristy, school subjects.
SIDE A ends at 00:47:18.
SIDE B 00:47:20 -- 00:48:40
Discussion about Price of Wales College stories continues, with mention of concerts; concerts, Prince of Wales College.
SIDE B 00:48:40 -- 00:49:44
Discussion about travel when she was young and stores in Summerside; Summerside, stores, traveling, ice travel.
SIDE B 00:49:44 -- 00:50:40
Discussion about Hudson Jeffery and Anne of Green Gables; teachers, Hudson Jeffery, Anne of Green Gables.
SIDE B 00:50:40 -- 00:53:06
Discussion about knitting for soldiers in WWI, neighbors that went, and the celebration when they arrived home; WWI, soldiers, war parcels.
SIDE B 00:53:06 -- 00:55:17
Discussion about the Spanish Flu; Dr. MacNeill, Summerside, Spanish Flu.
SIDE B 00:55:17 -- 00:56:20
Discussion about chewing tobacco and midwives in the area; midwives, chewing tobacco.
SIDE B 00:56:20 -- 00:57:10
Discussion about Callbeck's store; stores, Callbeck's store, gossip.
SIDE B 00:57:10 -- 01:00:10
Discussion about mussel mud and horse teams; mussel mud, horse teams, horses.
SIDE B 01:00:10 -- 01:01:42
Discussion about the traveling man and his stallions; horses, stallions, traveling man, horse breeding.
SIDE B 01:01:42 -- 01:02:45
Discussion about her chores on the farm, what kind of chickens they had, the local egg circle, and buying groceries with the eggs; eggs, egg circles, chores, chickens, bartering.
SIDE B 01:02:45 -- 01:05:43
Discussion about milk, cream, the local butter makers and the cheese factory on Reid's Corner; horsepower, Reid's Corner, cheese factories, milk, cream, butter.
SIDE B 01:05:43 -- 01:08:15
Discussion about how clever the Linkletter's are; Linkletter, smart.
SIDE B 01:08:15 -- 01:09:20
Discussion about the ice storm of 1956; 1956, ice storms, storms.
SIDE B 01:09:20 -- 01:10:36
A story about electricity and when she first got electricity; electricity, power.
SIDE B 01:10:36 -- 01:12:05
Discussion about the ice box and how they kept food; ham, ice boxes.
SIDE B 01:12:05 -- 01:13:58
Discussion about fish, lobster, and the meat peddlers; meat peddlers, fish, lobster.
SIDE B 01:13:58 -- 01:15:01
Discussion about her cooking; cooking, roast chicken.
SIDE B 01:15:01 -- 01:16:14
Discussion about birthday parties and birthday cake; birthdays, parties.
SIDE B 01:16:14 -- 01:18:00
Discussion about a receipt from the hospital for childbirth fees; hospital fees, childbirth, money.
SIDE B 01:18:00 -- 01:24:02
Discussion about fox ranching; telephones, fox ranching, foxes, fox pelts, fox furs.
SIDE B 01:24:02 -- 01:25:52
Discussion about travel on the Lower Bedeque ferry and the Callbeck's produce ferry; Callbeck, Lower Bedeque, ferries.
SIDE B 01:25:52 -- 01:27:19
Discussion about seeing the circus; circus.
SIDE B 01:27:19 -- 01:29:15
Discussion about the ability to travel and traveling on a hockey trip she took with her father; hockey, traveling.
SIDE B 01:29:15 -- 01:31:08
Discussion about the local rink in Bedeque and skating from their home to North Bedeque with her mother for a tea party; skating, Bedeque, rinks.
SIDE B 01:31:08 -- 01:32:16
Discussion about her first experiences with radio; radio.
SIDE B 01:32:16 -- 01:34:10
Discussion about quiet Sundays and her aunt that taught Sunday school; Sunday school, Sundays, quiet Sundays.
SIDE B 01:34:10 -- 01:34:36
Discussion about having ice cream for birthdays; ice cream, birthdays.
Tape ends at 01:34:36.
