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This interview is with Borden Mooney of Peakes Station, P.E.I. Borden begins by telling about the railroad, the history of the Peakes area, and Leard's Mill. He then talks about building a boat as a kid, Mooney's shingle mill, school, dances, and the railroad station. Borden then talks about Lem Hughes the blacksmith, cars, singing in the St. Teresa's choir for 73 years, plays, and the Curry boys. He talks about life in the 1930s, working as a mailman, Wild Bert Kenny, baseball, ghosts and forerunners, and moonshine.

This is the second tape of an interview with Bridget "Ann" Byrne of Fort Augustus, P.E.I. In this interview Ann talks about old Charlottetown, school, games, changes over the years, life in Boston, mills, and family. She also recites some poetry.

This is an interview with Mac Dixon. In this interview Mac talks about his family history, ice travel, his family's mill and other mills, horses, and farming.

This interview is with Estelle Bolger of Summerside, P.E.I. In this interview Estelle talks about her family, the Halifax Explosion, the Spanish Flu, her mother, her father, her family's barbershop, Bob Fraser, Georgetown, cars, ice, a murder in the 1930s, snowstorms, and rats.

This interview is with Andrew Robert Murnaghan of Tarantum, P.E.I. In this interview Andrew talks about farming by the phases of the moon, his family, blacksmiths, hauling and selling mussel mud, potato farming, horses, school, traveling to Charlottetown, pack peddlers, local stores, local characters, entertainment, home remedies, radio, cars, snowstorms, and rum and moonshine.

Cyril Byrne gives a lecture at the B.I.S Irish Heritage Lecture Series titled "Before and After the Great Famine: The Irish of Atlantic Canada". Cyril Byrne talks about the famine in two periods- immediately before and after the famine. Changes were drastic in Ireland's socio-economic and political structure. He speaks about the Land system, penal laws and Migration as result of the famine.

This is an interview with Tom and Marion Dunphy. In this interview the Dunphy's talk about their haunted house where William Large once lived.

Keith Pratt talks about many different topics detailing his life in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s in rural Prince Edward Island. In this recording he talks about several of his firsts: his first expierences with planes, tractors, phones and radios. He also talks about evolution of egg grading stations, and what kind of people ate lobster in his early years. He also touches on Christmas time, pranks, and trains. One of his final topics is when power came to his home town in the 50's and how it was knocked out less than 6 months later by an ice storm.