SIDE A 00:00:05 -- 00:01:42
Discussion about Prof. Watkins; Watkins, organists, music teachers, 1921.
SIDE A 00:01:42 -- 00:06:12
Discussion about her years playing the organ at church and courting at the night services; 1913, organists, church, Sunday school, religion, courting, night services.
SIDE A 00:06:12 -- 00:15:38
Discussion about how she met her husband Percy, dances and house parties, and their marriage; dances, house parties, Percy Birch, dancing, King George Hall, horse and buggy, weddings, honeymoons, 1922.
SIDE A 00:15:38 -- 00:20:18
Discussion about rum running and politics; politics, Liberals, Conservatives, Tories, prohibition, rum runners, rum running.
SIDE A 00:20:18 -- 00:25:56
Discussion about Senator John Yeo, with a story about the telephone; Senator John Yeo, John Yeo, 1918, telephones, J. W. Brown.
SIDE A 00:25:56 -- 00:27:57
Discussion about schooners in Port Hill, with mention of swimming; schooners, Port Hill.
SIDE A 00:27:57 -- 00:31:14
Discussion about Johnny Dennis the blacksmith and Collingwood Yeo; blacksmiths, Johnny Dennis, Gaspie Richards, Collingwood Yeo, Green Park.
SIDE A 00:31:14 -- 00:32:00
Discussion about temperance societies; temperance societies.
SIDE A 00:32:00 -- 00:37:44
Discussion about tuberculosis, doctors, and home remedies; tuberculosis, 1920s, sanatoriums, Charles Dalton, Dr. Long, Dr. Stewart, Tyne Valley, home remedies, sulfur and molasses, salt herring, tansy.
SIDE A 00:37:44 -- 00:40:58
Discussion about Johnny Dennis and other blacksmiths; Fred Dennis, Johnny Dennis, blacksmiths, John Robert MacDougall, Joe Veale, Stewart Veale.
SIDE A 00:40:58 -- 00:47:38
Discussion about her grandparents, with mention of taking the train to Summerside for shopping; Larkin, trains, Port Hill Station, Tyne Valley, shopping, groceries, Holman's, Summerside, stores.
SIDE A ends at 00:47:38.
SIDE B 00:00:47:45 -- 00:52:50
Discussion about shopping in Summerside continues, with mention of livery stables and horse sheds; Summerside, store, Sinclair and Stewart's, milliners, wooden sidewalks, roads, ice cream, Holman's, livery stables, Lyman Birch, conductors, horse sheds.
SIDE B 00:52:50 -- 00:57:58
Discussion about meat, with mention of homemade soap; meat, sausages, pork, soap, homemade soap, geese.
SIDE B 00:57:58 -- 01:01:02
Discussion about washing clothing; washing machines, stationary engines, washboards, electric washing machines.
SIDE B 01:01:02 -- 01:04:07
Discussion about electricity in Tyne Valley, with mention of sawmills; sawmills, electricity, 1956, ice storms, Tyne Valley, Yankee Gale.
SIDE B 01:04:07 -- 01:05:02
Discussion about cats; cats, pets.
SIDE B 01:05:02 -- 01:08:24
Discussion about picking potatoes, fruit, and berries; potato picking, berries, berry picking, fruit, apples, cherries, wild strawberries, Wolf River apples, apple varieties.
SIDE B 01:08:24 -- 01:10:00
Discussion about Robinson's flour mill; Robinson's mill, flour mills, mills, shorts.
SIDE B 01:10:10 -- 01:13:11
Discussion about Boates' mill; gristmill, woolen mill, mills, Boates' mill, wool, drugget, underwear, wool underwear.
SIDE B 01:13:11 -- 01:19:38
Discussion about chores on the farm, tractors, and self-sufficiency, with mention of rationing during WWII; chores, farming, hired men, self-sufficiency, tractors, firewood, oatmeal porridge, porridge, breakfast, 1930s, potato prices, rationing, WWII, sugar, tea.
SIDE B 01:19:38 -- 01:25:46
Discussion about businesses in Tyne Valley, with mention of egg trading; MacNeill's store, Tyne Valley, J. W. Brown's store, egg trading, eggs, bartering.
SIDE B 01:25:46 -- 01:28:41
A story about suspected German spies during WWII; WWII, German spies, Fox, Brewer Ramsay.
SIDE B 01:28:41 -- 01:30:04
Discussion about Morris Maynard; characters, Morris Marynard.
SIDE B 01:30:04 -- 01:33:23
Discussion about croqueting and knitting; knitting, croquet, sewing, spinning, hooking.
SIDE B 01:33:23 -- 01:35:16
Discussion about the biggest changes over the years, with mention of a plane crash in Lot 16; electricity, airplanes, Lot 16, plane crash, 1920s.
Tape ends at 01:35:16.
