Estelle and Lenie Bolger T2 [Tape Two]

Contributors
Interviewer: Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Interviewee: Bolger, Cornelius Patrick "Lenie"
Interviewee: Bolger, Estelle
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Date Recorded
2004-04-20
Date Digitized
2010-06-02
Abstract
This interview is with Estelle and Cornelius Patrick "Lenie" Bolger of Summerside, P.E.I. In this interview they talk about their families, how they met, Estelle's background as a barber, Estelle's parents, and ghosts.
Genre
Interview
Subject (Geographic)
Summerside, PE
Georgetown, PE
Lebanon
Subject (Temporal)
1880s
Early 1900s
Rights
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:03:52
Member of
Dutch Thompson Audio Collection
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
***A significant amount of the audio from 00:38:12 onward is distorted or difficult to hear.
SIDE A 00:00:04 -- 00:00:38
Discussion about Estelle helping sick people continues from Tape One; home remedies.

SIDE A 00:00:38 -- 00:02:28
Discussion about Estelle working in Borden, and she and Lenie's families; midwives.

SIDE A 00:02:28 -- 00:05:25
Discussion about how she met Lenie and their wedding; courting, Summerside, wedding, Georgetown.

SIDE A 00:05:25?? -- 00:09:47
Discussion about Lenie's life as a kid and Christmas, with mention of her mother and their marriage; Christmas, Ada Jane Batchilder.

SIDE A 00:09:47 -- 00:14:32
Discussion about Estelle's family; Lebanon, Solomon, church, General, duchess, Frank Solomon, barber, St. Pierre.

SIDE A 00:14:32 -- 00:20:47
Discussion about Lenie teaching Estelle to play the fiddle, with mention of their marriage; marriage, fiddle, fiddlers, step dancing.

SIDE A 00:20:47 -- 00:23:31
Discussion about Estelle's background as a barber, with mention of her family; lady barber, barber.

SIDE A 00:23:31 -- 00:31:53
Discussion about her parents and their work, with mention of her uncle Peter and her sister; Georgetown, mayor, snowstorm, Peter Solomon, pack peddler, barbershop, barber, baking, haircut prices, barber prices, public bath, radio, Water Street.

SIDE A ends at 00:31:53.
SIDE B 00:31:59 -- 00:34:05
Discussion about her mother baking for sailors and being invited on to ships; mayor, Georgetown, baking.

SIDE B 00:34:05 -- 00:34:42
Discussion about a murder in Georgetown; murder, Georgetown.

SIDE B 00:34:42 -- 00:58:55
Discussion about her father immigrating to P.E.I. and her family's history, with stories about ghosts and her grandmother dying; Soloman, Solomon, 1880s, duchess, Carmillita, barber, St. Pierre, Lebanon, Texas, Ada Batchilder, William Batchilder, Wilt chair, snuff, tobacco, house fire, ghosts.

SIDE B 00:58:55 -- 01:03:52
Discussion about her mother, forerunners, and her sister Louise; forerunners, Louise Solomon, Eastons, flu.

Tape ends at 01:03:52.
***Tape ends mid-sentence.