SIDE A 00:00:04 -- 00:01:49
Discussion about the Callaghan family history; Lake Verde, Acorn, 1900, mid-wives.
SIDE A 00:01:49 -- 00:04:40
Discussion about her parents, her mother as a mid-wife, and the old days; family, mid-wife, babies, Margaret Trainor, violin, fiddle.
SIDE A 00:04:40 -- 00:07:09
Discussion about forerunners; Johnny, Patsy, ghosts, forerunners.
SIDE A 00:07:09 -- 00:09:12
Discussion about curing eczema by crossing the Northumberland Strait; eczema, Lucy, Northumberland Strait, cures, remedies.
SIDE A 00:09:12 -- 00:12:48
Discussion about her grandparents, family, and ancestors, with mention of Lake Verde's history; family, ancestors, Trainor, Lake Verde, Irish, Ireland, early 1800s, diphtheria, century baby, Tracadie, Campbell, large families, 1900.
SIDE A 00:12:49 -- 00:13:41
Brief discussion about her godparents; accident, Mary Kelly, Frank Kelly, godparents.
SIDE A 00:13:41 -- 00:14:52
Discussion about her family continues; Lewis Callaghan, Gus Callaghan, family, seventh son, superstition.
SIDE A 00:14:52 -- 00:16:54
Discussion about spinning and weaving, with mention of farm animals; yarn, spinning, weaving, loom, socks, farm animals, turkeys, farm, geese, sheep.
SIDE A 00:16:56 -- 00:19:58
Discussion about her three brothers who served in WWI; WWI, 1914, John J. Callaghan, mail.
SIDE A 00:19:58 -- 00:20:54
Brief discussion about her neighbours; neighbours, Kelly, Woods, Redmond, Smith, Acorn, Lake Verde, Billy Redmond, Joe Redmond.
SIDE A 00:20:54 -- 00:23:18
Discussion about Lake Verde, with mention of drowning; Lake Verde, swimming, drowning, Hughes, Redmond, Mary.
SIDE A 00:23:18 -- 00:26:25
Discussion about school and going to Vernon Bridge for groceries; groceries, school, Doucette, Vernon Bridge, Forbes' store, train, trading eggs, egg prices, blueberries.
SIDE A 00:26:25 -- 00:27:57
Discussion about money, with a story about buying candy; money, pennies, Weatherby, candy.
SIDE A 00:27:57 -- 00:28:48
Brief discussion about blueberries; blueberries, blueberry prices, picking blueberries.
SIDE A 00:28:48 -- 00:31:25
Discussion about horses; cars, harnessing a horse, horses, horse and wagon, driving horse.
SIDE A 00:31:25 -- 00:31:53
Discussion about entertainment and kitchen parties, with mention of card games; kitchen parties, fiddle, card games, entertainment, music, dancing.
SIDE A ends at 00:31:53.
SIDE B 00:32:02 -- 00:32:12
Discussion about playing card games continues; entertainment, games, Straight 45, card games.
SIDE B 00:32:12 -- 00:35:44
A story about going to town with her uncle Patsy; Patsy, rum, rum prices, horse and wagon.
SIDE B 00:35:44 -- 00:37:02
Discussion about drinking liquor on holidays, with mention of work and chores; liquor, holidays, whiskey, hot toddy, milk, chores, work.
SIDE B 00:38:00 -- 00:40:16
Discussion about the butter factory at Lake Verde; Village Green, Lake Verde, butter factory, Gordon Day, Lake Verde Station, milk, whey.
SIDE B 00:40:16 -- 00:41:58
Discussion about the post office at Kelly's Corner and the first train she saw; post office, Kelly's Corner, trains, 1905, Lake Verde.
SIDE B 00:41:58 -- 00:44:57
Discussion about groceries and general stores; MacLeod, groceries, general stores, molasses, churns, shoes, tea, salt herring, self-sufficiency, cellar, cod.
SIDE B 00:44:56 -- 00:47:09
Discussion about haunted houses; haunted houses, Lake Verde, undertaker, Acorn, brick house, Edward Kelly, ghosts, Rogers, Charlottetown.
SIDE B 00:47:09 -- 00:51:28
Discussion about baking and gristmills, with mention of wool; baking, gristmill, wool, flour, Ross, sheep, drugget, weaving, spinning, dying, knitting, loom, underwear, drugget drawers.
SIDE B 00:51:28 -- 00:57:06
Discussion about church, with mention of wakes and funerals; funerals, wakes, church, Vernon River, St. Joachim's, wedding, Finnigan's Hill, graves, death, coffins, John Acorn, Jenkins, burials, hearse.
SIDE B 00:57:06 -- 00:59:06
Discussion about her uncles death, with a story about a forerunner; measles, deaf, ghosts, forerunners.
***The tape appears to have stopped at 01:00:32.
SIDE B 00:59:06 -- 01:00:32
Brief discussion about Jimmy Doyle, with mention of the Halifax Explosion; Jimmy Doyle, Halifax Explosion, 1917.
SIDE B 01:00:32 -- 01:02:26
Discussion about taking the train to town and her father working as a ticket agent; trains, train fare, ticket agent, water tank.
SIDE B 01:02:26 -- 01:04:43
Discussion about her first train ride; trains, Tommy Keoughan, roundhouse, 1916, dwarf.
Tape ends at 01:04:43.
