Peter Hicks and Elwyn Herlihy T1 [Tape One]

Contributors

Interviewer: Thompson, Reg "Dutch"

Interviewee: Herlihy, Elwyn

Interviewee: Hicks, Peter

Researcher: Gray, Tristan John and MacKay, Paul

Audio engineer: Gray, Tristan John

Date Recorded

Unknown year

Date Digitized

2010-08-09

Abstract

This is an interview with Peter Hicks and Elwyn Herlihy. In this interview they talk about their ancestors, the family home, their barn, apples, and various topics related to the family farm.

Genre

Subject (Geographic)

Subject (Temporal)

Rights

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Physical Location

Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson

Duration

00:31:33

Member of

Dutch Thompson Audio Collection

Model

1 1 Item in Collection

Transcript

SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:04:34
Discussion about their ancestors coming to PEI, moving to Bonshaw and then Argyle Shore, the family house, midwives, and the history of the house; Bonshaw, Argyle Shore, ancestors, midwives.

SIDE A 00:04:34 -- 00:16:05
Discussion about the family barn, a farm implement made for taking out stumps, other local farms, how the barn was built, the barn diary, and major events being written on doors and planks of wood; 1800s, 1840s, barns, tree stumps.

SIDE A 00:16:05 -- 00:25:25
When the water pump was put in and why, the road being put in, his mother, a local quarry, and things written on the walls; water pumps, roads, quarries.

SIDE A 00:25:25 -- 00:31:33
What he kept and what he tore down from his barn, different apples and their purposes, and his cider press; cider press, cider, apples, barns.

Tape ends at 00:31:33.