SIDE A 00:00:05 -- 00:01:58
Discussion about his parents and grandparents; Phillips, Millar, Joshua Millar, Peter Millar, Penrose Phillips, Pensy Millar, farming.
SIDE A 00:01:58 -- 00:06:16
Discussion about the family farm, horses, and plowing; acreage, farming, horses, plowing, walking, horse breeds, gang plow, chores, driving horse, blood horse, traveling man.
SIDE A 00:06:16 -- 00:09:25
Discussion about cattle, milk, and butter; cattle, milk, butter, Holstein, milking, creamery, Tyne Valley, cheese factory, cream, crock, salt.
SIDE A 00:09:25 -- 00:10:22
Brief discussion about big families and chores; big family, chores.
SIDE A 00:10:22 -- 00:12:46
Discussion about pigs; pigs, butchering pigs, boiling pigs.
SIDE A 00:12:46 -- 00:16:06
Discussion about homemade clothes and gristmills; homemade clothes, clothes, gristmills, Coleman, Ellerslie, shorts, wheat.
SIDE A 00:16:06 -- 00:20:00
Discussion about potato farming; potato farming, potato varieties, Irish Cobblers, blue potatoes, pesticide, sprayer, Bluestone, Paris Green, plowing.
SIDE A 00:20:00 -- 00:23:46
Discussion about grain and cattle; grain, wheat, oats, hay, barley, cattle, milk cows, milking, milk cans, well.
SIDE A 00:23:46 -- 00:25:41
Discussion about his mother and her homemade cheese and jam; homemade, cheese, jam, cooking, baking.
SIDE A 00:25:41 -- 00:28:22
Discussion about chickens and eggs, with mention of trading at the local store and an outside well; chickens, hens, eggs, Rhode Island Chickens, trading eggs, 1930s, potato prices turnips.
SIDE A 00:28:22 -- 00:31:17
Discussion about fish, peddlers, and meat; fish, peddlers, meat, roast, chicken, beef, pork, salted pork, ducks, geese.
SIDE A 00:31:17 -- 00:33:19
Discussion about a water pump and firewood; water pump, firewood, crosscut saw, stationary engine, wood cutting.
SIDE A 00:33:19 -- 00:34:53
Brief discussion about the first tractor and binder; binder, tractor, 1940s, hay cutter, farm machinery.
SIDE A 00:34:53 -- 00:38:02
Discussion about home remedies and his mother's work as a mid-wife; mid-wife, home remedies.
SIDE A 00:38:02 -- 00:40:23
Discussion about the Halifax Explosion, WWI, and the Spanish Flu; Halifax Explosion, WWI, Spanish Flu, 1918, 1917, Peter Millar.
SIDE A 00:40:23 -- 00:42:22
Discussion about 1923 and a big snowstorm; 1923, snowstorm, train stuck, shoveling, Dystant Road.
SIDE A 00:42:22 -- 00:44:16
Discussion about their apple orchard and apple varieties, farming, and being self-sufficient; apples, Russet apples, Alexander apples, orchard, apple picking, farming, flour, bran.
SIDE A 00:44:16 -- 00:45:25
Discussion about cod liver oil and foxes; cold liver oil, cod liver, foxes, fox prices, fox ranching, Ed Purdy, Willy Purdy.
SIDE A 00:45:25 -- 00:47:51
Discussion about firewood and thrashing; firewood, cords, thrashing, Halls, ordinary man.
SIDE A 00:47:51 -- 00:48:02
Brief discussion about the Harvest Excursion; Harvest Excursion.
SIDE A ends at 00:48:02.
SIDE B 00:48:12 -- 00:48:29
Brief discussion about the Harvest Excursion continues; Harvest Excursion.
SIDE B 00:48:29 -- 00:52:35
Discussion about mussel mud, with mention of traveling on ice; mussel mud, traveling, ice, mussel mud prices, Bideford River.
SIDE B 00:52:38 -- 00:55:02
Discussion about his first car; cars, Ford, car curtains, Willy Purdy.
SIDE B 00:55:02 -- 00:56:54
Discussion about blacksmiths; blacksmiths, Bideford, Jelley, Lower Ellerslie, anvil, horseshoe prices, corks.
SIDE B 00:56:54 -- 00:58:35
Discussion about school; storms, school, walking, Etta Stewart.
SIDE B 00:58:35 -- 01:01:00
Discussion about the telephone, electricity, and an ice storm in 1956; party line, telephone, electricity, ice storm, 1956.
SIDE B 01:01:00 -- 01:04:27
Discussion about sawmills, schooners, and his uncle's general store; Captain Richard, schooners, sawmills, general store.
SIDE B 01:04:27 -- 01:08:05
Discussion about his job as a rural mailman; rural mailman, bicycle, mail route, rural mail, storms, 1956.
SIDE B 01:08:05 -- 01:10:06
Discussion about Christmas; Christmas, presents, Christmas tree, plum pudding, candy, oranges.
SIDE B 01:10:06 -- 01:11:20
Brief discussion about traveling, with mention of Summerside; traveling, Summerside, general stores, Sinclair and Stewart.
SIDE B 01:11:20 -- 01:12:17
Brief discussion about trains and railway men; trains, railway men, train fare, Ivan Millar.
SIDE B 01:12:17 -- 01:14:52
Discussion about family, big changes over the years, and church; family, church, Bidefod United Church, 1925, Tyne Valley.
SIDE B 01:14:52 -- 01:17:24
Discussion about plowing roads and riding horses in winter; plowing roads, horses, winter, driving horse, Park Media, horse breeds, traveling man.
SIDE B 01:17:24 -- 01:19:22
Discussion about seafood, with mention of school; seafood, school, fertilizer, herring, oysters, lobster.
SIDE B 01:19:22 -- 01:21:40
Discussion about running the local Co-op store; Co-op, oats, potatoes, molasses, rum, rationing, 1940s.
SIDE B 01:21:40 -- 01:23:52
Discussion about the biggest changes over the years, the train, radio, and Summerside; Summerside, trains, radio, roads, streets.
SIDE B 01:23:52 -- 01:24:41
Brief discussion about his mother and grandfather; Pensy Phillips, farmers.
SIDE B 01:24:41 -- 01:26:06
Discussion about money, store credit, the Co-op, and leaving the Island; money, store credit.
SIDE B 01:26:06 -- 01:27:10
Discussion about the 1929 earthquake, the Borden ferry in 1917, and train gauges; 1917, Borden ferry, 1929, earthquake, train gauges.
***Dutch interviews Edwin Dennis from 01:27:15 -- 01:32:35.
SIDE B 01:27:10 -- 01:29:15
Discussion with Edwin about the 1956 ice storm; ice storm, 1956, electricity, linemen.
SIDE B 01:29:15 -- 01:31:33
Discussion with Edwin about family and ancestors, mussel mud, and his family house; ancestors, Edgar Dennis, mussel mud, Arlington.
SIDE B 01:31:33 -- 01:32:35
Discussion with Edwin about the ice storm continues; ice storm, radios, news, 1952, 1956, Port Hill, electricity.
SIDE B 01:32:35 -- 01:33:28
Discussion with Layton about the biggest changes over the years; television.
Tape ends at 01:33:28.
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