SIDE A 00:00:04 -- 00:03:55
Discussion about his family, ancestors, and neighbours in Kellys Cross; 1913, Ireland, Kellys Cross, John Monaghan, Irish, sharing, neighbours.
SIDE A 00:03:55 -- 00:06:15
Discussion about his father who played the fiddle, with mention of house parties, dancing, and other fiddlers; Jimmy Ronald Monaghan, Jimmy Rosie Monaghan, Rosie MacGuigan, Jimmy Rosie, dances, fiddlers, house parties, dancing, Joe Kelly, Levi Trainor, Steven Smith, music.
SIDE A 00:06:15 -- 00:11:28
Discussion about quiet Sundays, house parties, dances, and jigging; Sundays, quiet Sundays, house parties, dances, jigging, Jimmy Rosie, Father Kearn.
SIDE A 00:11:28 -- 00:14:48
Discussion about his mother, Lizzie Hughes from Emyvale, their family, and flour bag clothes; Elizabeth Hughes, Lizzie Hughes, Emyvale, Jimmy Hughes, hand-me-downs, flour bag clothes.
SIDE A 00:14:48 -- 00:17:11
A story about a woman carrying a barrel of flour; barrels, flour, John Bradley.
SIDE A 00:17:11 -- 00:18:47
Discussion about his neighbour making dresses for his sisters; seamstress, dresses, clothes.
SIDE A 00:18:46 -- 00:23:36
Discussion about his family continues, with mention of his aunt weaving blankets and sheets; beds, weaving, blankets, scutching flax, big families.
SIDE A 00:23:36 -- 00:25:34
Discussion about firewood and milling; firewood, flour, milling, bran, grain flour.
SIDE A 00:25:34 -- 00:27:49
Discussion about home remedies; cod liver oil, home remedies, tonic, sulfur and molasses, mustard plasters, ginger and molasses, bread poultice, bealing, salt herring.
SIDE A 00:27:49 -- 00:30:58
Discussion about family members who served in WWI; WWI, U.S. Army, John Peake, Joe Monaghan.
SIDE A 00:30:58 -- 00:32:04
Discussion about the Spanish Flu, diphtheria, and the Halifax Explosion; Spanish Flu, diphtheria, Halifax Explosion.
SIDE A 00:32:04 -- 00:41:16
Discussion about farming, with mention of general stores, bartering, horses, and credit at Victoria stores; chores, farming, general stores, bartering, horses, cattle, Harland, Victoria, horse trading, credit, Kennedy's store, chickens.
SIDE A 00:41:16 -- 00:42:23
Discussion about berry picking; berry picking, berries, raspberries, strawberries, Bradley's, cider, raspberry cordial.
SIDE A 00:42:23 -- 00:43:27
Discussion about his mother selling chickens to restaurants; Orient Hotel, Rogerson's, chickens.
SIDE A 00:43:27 -- 00:44:14
Discussion about lime kilns; lime kilns.
SIDE A 00:44:14 -- 00:45:22
Discussion about mussel mud; Victoria, mussel mud.
SIDE A 00:45:22 -- 00:47:23
Discussion about farming, with mention of sheep, French's Mill, and knitting; sheep, French's Mill, carding mill, knitting, wool.
SIDE A ends at 00:47:23.
SIDE B 00:47:30 -- 00:49:11
Discussion about knitting continues, with a story about thrashing in wool underwear; drugget, knitting, underwear, thrashing.
SIDE B 00:49:11 -- 00:50:09
Discussion about thrashing grain; thrashing, grain, twist, chewing tobacco, Hickey and Nicholson.
SIDE B 00:50:09 -- 00:54:56
Discussion about his mother's work as a midwife with Dr. Bouyer, working on binders, and making butter; chewing tobacco, Dr. Bouyer, midwife, butter, binders.
SIDE B 00:54:56 -- 00:57:48
A story about buttermilk; buttermilk, sharing, neighbours, Mag Monaghan.
SIDE B 00:57:48 -- 01:05:01
Discussion about potato farming during the 1920s and 1930s; potato farming, potato prices, schooners, shipping, turnips, turnip prices, M. J. MacIvor, Kinkora, Green Mountain, Bluestone, lime, sprayer, Paris Green, MacIntyre Blues, pesticides, blight.
SIDE B 01:05:01 -- 01:06:17
Discussion about planting by the phases of the moon; phases of the moon, planting crops, lime, mussel mud.
SIDE B 01:06:17 -- 01:07:22
Discussion about ghost stories and walking at night; ghost stories.
SIDE B 01:07:22 -- 01:13:14
Discussion about potato farming continues, with mention of the family land; planting potatoes, picking potatoes, wages, potato farming, meals, 1914, acreage.
SIDE B 01:13:14 -- 01:14:42
Discussion about black oats; black oats, horse feed, red oats.
SIDE B 01:14:42 -- 01:19:25
Discussion about horses, with a story about racing; horses, driving horses, horse racing, Albany, courting.
SIDE B 01:19:25 -- 01:21:48
Discussion about plowing and first tractor; tractors, plowing, gang plow, 1950s, horse trading, Stanley Mayo.
SIDE B 01:21:48 -- 01:23:25
Discussion about courting with horses; horses, courting, driving horses.
SIDE B 01:23:25 -- 01:25:01
Discussion about traveling, with a story about his neighbour going to the exhibition; traveling, exhibition.
SIDE B 01:25:01 -- 01:27:12
Discussion about moonshine and boat rum, and a story about finding a keg of rum; moonshine, boat rum, rum, elections.
SIDE B 01:27:12 -- 01:30:34
Discussion about Christmas; Christmas, oranges, socks, mitts, presents, Christmas goose, toys.
SIDE B 01:30:34 -- 01:31:13
Discussion about sleigh bells; sleigh bells.
SIDE B 01:31:13 -- 01:32:17
Discussion about blacksmiths; blacksmiths, Charlie MacKinnon, John MacKinnon, bartering, neighbours.
SIDE B 01:31:17 -- 01:35:01
Discussion about his first radio; radio, radio prices, 1940s.
SIDE B 01:35:01 -- 01:35:07
Discussion about the local telephone; telephone, local telephone.
Tape ends at 01:35:07.
