Thompson, Reg "Dutch"

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This interview is with Marguerite Stewart talking about deliveries to the cellar in the house on School Street, where they shopped in Charlottetown, her grandfather and the Salvation Army, how she met her husband Gordon, working in a dress shop, an interview to sing in New York City, singing on CFCY, Christmas, the Cudmore and McCallum families, the old police chief and his son Ken. Her husband Gordon then comes into the inteview as well and they talk about their wedding and honeymoon, and her father Arthur being called home after her grandfather became sick.
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Interviewee: Mutch, Keith
Researcher: Gray, Tristan John
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: Gray, Tristan John
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This is an interview with Keith Mutch. In this interview Keith talks about cars, ice travel, tractors, the family farm, the marine hospital, his grandfather, Christmas, W. N. Tanton's Clockl Shop, watches, ice, traveling, milk, home remedies, horses, rum running, an air crash in Southport, and various other topics.
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Interviewee: Hessian, Louise
Audio engineer: Colin
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This is an interview with Louise Hessian of Georgetown, PEI. In this interview Louise talks about memories of her father James "Jimmy" Gilbert, his death, her mother's coping with his death, her mother's baking and other memories, Christmas, education and teaching, her grandparents, mixed marriages, and Uncle Steve.
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Interviewee: Coombs, John
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
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This is the second half of an interview with John Coombs. In this interview John talks about his travels as a hobo, hopping on trains, working in San Fransisco and spending time in jail there, meeting movie stars in Hollywood, traveling to Las Vegas and running into trouble there, and traveling to Los Angeles.
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Interviewee: Pratt, Keith
Interviewee: Wilson, Rob
Researcher: Gray, Tristan John
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: Gray, Tristan John
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Keith Pratt talks about his trips to Boston and what he would bring back. He goes on to talk about working for the Metro Boston Transit Athority and how one day he saved a little girl who fell onto the tracks. After that he talks about his expeirences during the second world war and ghost stories on PEI. He finnishes up his final tape discussing his favorite books and musicians.
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Rob Wilson talks about moving from the Bronx, New York to Iris, PEI. He tells a great story about telphones on PEI.
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Interviewee: Brooks, David "Ray"
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
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This is the first of four tapes with David "Ray" Brooks of Murray Harbour, P.E.I. In this interview Ray talks about Dr. Brehaut, his family, home remedies, the Great Depression, mills, homemade clothes, sheep, and Christmas. He also talks about telephones, WWI, the Spanish Flu, Scarlet Fever, farming, potatoes, apples, and geese.
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Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
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This is the second tape of several interviews with Captain Thomas Trenholm of Murray Harbour, P.E.I. Captain Tom continues a story from Tape One about a trip to Guyana. He then tells a story about a trip on the Lady Hawkins with his father, tells about the end of the schooners, and talks about Wallace and the family house in Port Elgin. He goes on to tell about his father's last voyage and death, rum running, and a story about getting lost on his way back from Barbados.