Audio file
Contributors
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Date Recorded
1999-02-04
Date Digitized
2010-09-09
Abstract
This is an interview with Jennie Pearl MacLean (nee Maynard) of Port Hill and Summerside, P.E.I. In this interview Jennie talks about farming, potatoes, wakes and funerals, Sundays, the Yeos, entertainment, Summerside, traveling, planes, mussel mud, courting, her wedding, her trip to Boston, airplanes, electricity, living in Halifax during WWII, deep snow, the wharf at Port Hill, and various other topics.
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:02:53
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:04 -- 00:04:15
Discussion about potato farming, with mention of meat and fish; potato farming, plowing, potatoes, potato digging, potato picking, pigs, fish, pork, meat.

SIDE A 00:04:15 -- 00:07:50
Discussion about the Low Point Graveyard and local families; Low Point, Low Point Graveyard, Jim Gillis, Beecher Dennis.

SIDE A 00:07:50 -- 00:10:24
Discussion about wakes and funerals; wakes, funerals, hearses, Hubert Phillips, undertakers.

SIDE A 00:10:24 -- 00:12:11
Discussion about quiet Sundays; quiet Sundays, Sundays, chores, skating, church.

SIDE A 00:12:11 -- 00:15:50
Discussion about Senator Yeo, Collingwood Yeo, and the the Kilbride triplets; Senator Yeo, Collingwood Yeo, triplets, Kilbride.

SIDE A 00:15:50 -- 00:17:44
Discussion about dances and fiddlers; fiddlers, dances, entertainment, house parties, frolics.

SIDE A 00:17:44 -- 00:19:03
Discussion about the first radios and televisions; radio, 1920, televisions, TVs, Rowan Bishop, Henry Bishop.

SIDE A 00:19:03 -- 00:21:21
Discussion about stores in Summerside; Summerside, stores, Sinclair and Stewart's, fires, Holman's.

SIDE A 00:21:21 -- 00:23:52
Discussion about going to the movies with the minister, with mention of teaching him how to drive; movies, Rev. Davies, driving.

SIDE A 00:23:52 -- 00:25:50
Discussion about gristmills and traveling on the ice, with mention of a drowning; ice travel, gristmills, Jim Gillis, drowning.

SIDE A 00:25:50 -- 00:26:25
Discussion about mussel mud; mussel mud.

SIDE A 00:26:25 -- 00:28:26
Discussion about courting by horse and sleigh; courting, horse and sleigh.

SIDE A 00:28:26 -- 00:29:48
Discussion about rum running and bootleggers; rum running, bootleggers, rum, frolics.

SIDE A 00:29:48 -- 00:30:16
Discussion about Morris Maynard; Morris Maynard.

SIDE A 00:30:16 -- 00:31:22
Discussion about the biggest changes over the years; electricity, washing machines, washing.

SIDE A ends at 00:31:22.
SIDE B 00:31:30 -- 00:35:41
Discussion about her mother, with a story about thrashing; thrashing, Annie Maynard, self-sufficiency.

SIDE B 00:35:41 -- 00:37:46
Discussion about electricity, moving to Summerside, and ironing clothes; electricity, 1951, power, ironing.

SIDE B 00:37:46 -- 00:39:49
Discussion about living in Halifax during WWII; WWII, Halifax, convoys, blackouts.

SIDE B 00:39:49 -- 00:42:57
Discussion about stores, deep snow, and trains stuck in the snow; deep snow, general stores, stuck trains, kerosene, snow, breaking the roads.

SIDE B 00:42:57 -- 00:47:28
Discussion about a plane trip to Florida, with mention of local plane crashes; traveling, planes, Lloyd Sharp, Emmet Williams, plane crashes.

SIDE B 00:47:28 -- 00:50:50
Discussion about taking the train to Boston; Boston, trains, traveling, Herbert MacArthur.

SIDE B 00:50:50 -- 00:56:33
Discussion about her wedding, with mention of her husband's work; weddings, Harry Coleman, Enid Birch, shivery, Alvin MacLean, 1930.

SIDE B 00:56:33 -- 00:57:59
Discussion about Senator Yeo, King George Hall, and Johnny Dennis; King George Hall, Senator Yeo, Yeo, Johnny Dennis, Christmas, presents.

SIDE B 00:57:59 -- 00:59:37
Discussion about the Yeo boys; Yeo, Edgar Yeo, Bayfield Yeo, Gerald Yeo.

SIDE B 00:59:37 -- 01:02:53
Discussion about various topics including wharves and boats; wharves, boats, Port Hill.

Tape ends at 01:02:53.