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Contributors
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Date Recorded
Unknown year
Date Digitized
2010-06-09
Abstract
This interview is with Roma Mulligan (nee Curley) of Kinkora and Freetown, P.E.I. In this interview Roma talks about her grandparents, neighbours, helping on the farm, horses and livestock, butter and cheese, self sufficiency, trading, homemade clothes, Freetown, electricity, mussel mud, and foxes.
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:03:00
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:04 -- 00:01:03
Discussion about her grandmother McKenna who was a midwife and nurse; nurse, midwife, home remedies, tansy, tansy tea, poultice.

SIDE A 00:01:03 -- 00:06:11
Discussion about neighbours helping each other and sharing horses; neighbours, horses, Curley.

SIDE A 00:06:11 -- 00:07:30
Discussion about helping on the farm; farming, plowing, binder, chores, milking.

SIDE A 00:07:30 -- 00:11:13
Discussion about horses continues, with mention of breeding and the traveling man; horses, breeding, traveling man.

SIDE A 00:11:13 -- 00:13:24
Discussion about bulls and cattle; bulls, cattle, breeding, Shorthorn, Ayrshire, Jersey.

SIDE A 00:13:24 -- 00:16:42
Discussion about butter and cheese, with mention of factories; creamery, butter factory, cheese factory, Kinkora, Crapaud, cream, butter, cheese, homemade butter, crocks.

SIDE A 00:16:42 -- 00:22:43
Discussion about self sufficiency, with mention of chicken, eggs, pork, and canning food; canning food, canned food, self sufficiency, eggs, pork, chicken, firewood, trading, neighbours, clucking hens.

SIDE A 00:22:43 -- 00:25:29
Discussion about fowl, poultry, and goose raffles; fowl, poultry, geese, Christmas goose, China goose, goose raffles, turkeys.

SIDE A 00:25:29 -- 00:31:27
Discussion about pigs; pigs, butchering pigs, pork, potted meat, pig feed.

SIDE A ends at 00:31:27
SIDE B 00:31:33 -- 00:32:26
Discussion about pigs continues; pigs, boar.

SIDE B 00:32:26 -- 00:34:27
Discussion about blacksmiths; blacksmiths, John T. Mulligan, Russell Reeves, horseshoeing.

SIDE B 00:34:27 -- 00:36:23
Discussion about trading eggs for groceries; egg trading, eggs, groceries, grocery list.

SIDE B 00:36:23 -- 00:38:42
Discussion about making clothes and sheets out of flour bags; flour bag clothes, flour bags, Robin Hood flour.

SIDE B 00:38:42 -- 00:40:23
Discussion about keeping Riverside patients, with mention of life during tough times; Riverside, patients.

SIDE B 00:40:23 -- 00:42:36
Discussion about trains, with mention of the Pig's Eye and the Jitney; Pig's Eye, Jitney, trains, Freetown station.

SIDE B 00:42:36 -- 00:44:22
Discussion about Freetown; Ralph Burns, stores, general store, Vaughn McCall, barbershop, tailor, Freetown, Ben Bearisto.

SIDE B 00:44:22 -- 00:46:52
Discussion about electricity, with mention of Ambrose Monaghan; electricity, Ambrose Monaghan, power bills, power, lights, stationary engine.

SIDE B 00:46:52 -- 00:48:13
Discussion about hard work and work she did on the farm; hard work, gender roles.

SIDE B 00:48:13 -- 00:51:28
Discussion about horses and a story about her son being kicked by one; horses, Dr. Gallant.

SIDE B 00:51:28 -- 00:52:54
Discussion about mussel mud, with a story about falling through the ice; mussel mud, mudding, drowning, ice.

SIDE B 00:52:54 -- 00:57:40
Discussion about her father, with mention of his death and changes in her parents' lifetimes; breakfast, death, Alfred Mulligan, snowstorm, 1958.

SIDE B 00:57:40 -- 01:03:00
Discussion about foxes, pigs, cows, horses; cats, foxes, fox meat, pigs, cows, horses, McCarville, butcher.

Tape ends at 01:03:00.