SIDE A 00:00:05 -- 00:06:11
Discussion about fiddle playing, how he learned, other fiddlers, and dances; fiddle, fiddlers, music, Bill Harvey, Jim Tuplin, dances, cars, Annie MacKay, Annie MacDougall.
SIDE A 00:06:11 -- 00:06:58
Discussion about the Halifax Explosion and the Spanish Flu; Spanish Flu, Halifax Explosion, 1917.
SIDE A 00:06:58 -- 00:08:53
Discussion about his uncle William Bolger the peddler, and horses; William Bolger, peddler, horses, Hackney horses.
SIDE A 00:08:53 -- 00:10:24
Discussion about his uncles, James, Gabriel, and Sandy; Ginger Blue, James Bolger, Sandy Bolger, Gabriel Bolger, fiddler, casket maker.
SIDE A 00:10:24 -- 00:13:24
Discussion about his family, with mention of his father Johnny; Earring Johnny, Johnny Bolger, earrings, Gabriel Bolger, Polinas Bolger, Rebe Bolger, big families.
SIDE A 00:13:24 -- 00:22:57
Discussion about his first trip to SummerSIDE And how they met, with mention of a rocking chair, home remedies, and Estelle's work as a lady barber; Summerside, John Wilt, rocking chair, Bob Fraser, barber, Massey and Peters, lady barber, home remedies, barber's itch.
SIDE A 00:22:57 -- 00:27:22
Discussion about Lenie courting Estelle and their musical family; music, fiddle, fiddlers, courting, Pat Bolger.
SIDE A 00:27:22 -- 00:30:28
Discussion about Lenie courting Estelle with his uncle Bob's car; courting, 1930 Pontiac, 1933.
SIDE A 00:30:28 -- 00:31:06
Discussion about their wedding; Georgetown, wedding.
SIDE A 00:31:06 -- 00:31:55
Discussion about food prices in the 1930s and Estelle's barbering; lady barber, barbering, food prices, 1930s.
SIDE A ends at 00:31:55.
SIDE B 00:32:00 -- 00:37:01
Discussion about building their house and living in Tyne Valley, and Lenie joining the navy in 1941; 1933, Tyne Valley, harness maker, navy, 1941, Chief Petty Officer, Newfoundland, WWII, Georgetown, shoemaker.
SIDE B 00:37:01 -- 00:40:00
Discussion about Lenie's fiddle playing and a cigar box violin he made; fiddlers, dances, cigar box violin.
SIDE B 00:40:00 -- 00:42:42
Discussion about Estelle's family and growing up in Georgetown; Ada Jane Batchilder, Georgetown, 1909, Dr. Stewart, schooners, bakery, hotel, public bath, smoking room, barbershop.
SIDE B 00:42:42 -- 00:44:16
Discussion about the Halifax Explosion; Madeline Johnson, Halifax Explosion, 1917, Georgetown.
SIDE B 00:44:16 -- 00:45:55
Discussion about being in her father's barbershop during the 1929 earthquake; 1929, earthquake, barbershop, Newfoundland.
SIDE B 00:45:55 -- 00:51:41
Lenie plays the fiddle and talks about fiddle players, other instruments that accompanied him, and playing on the radio; fiddle, fiddle music, fiddle tune, St. Anne's reel, Bill Harvey, Don Messer, CHGS, Joe Bun's Orchestra, Joe Bun Gaudet.
SIDE B 00:51:41 -- 00:53:18
A story about Joe Bun Gaudet at Estelle's barbershop; Henry Gaudet, Joe Bun Gaudet, barbershop, bet.
SIDE B 00:53:18 -- 00:54:43
Discussion about Lenie's fiddles; fiddles.
SIDE B 00:54:43 -- 00:56:30
Discussion about St. Bridget's Church; organ player, St. Bridget's Church, singing.
SIDE B 00:56:30 -- 00:58:02
Discussion about firewood, his father's farm, and changes over the years; firewood, farming, mussel mud.
SIDE B 00:58:02 -- 01:00:58
Discussion about home remedies; cod liver oil, salt herring, nutmeg, cures, home remedies, fever, Ague, Malaria, wine.
SIDE B 01:00:58 -- 01:03:54
Discussion about delivering babies, and a stories about Estelle helping sick people; childbirth, Dr. Champion, Austin Maynard, home remedies.
Tape ends at 01:03:54.
