Phillips (Jones), Mary Emma

This the second portion of an interview with Mary Emma (Jones) Phillips of Harrington, P.E.I. Mary very briefly continues talking about school, then she tells about the 1918 flu pandemic. She then tells about making clothes from wool and druggat, making soap, and talks about local doctors. She then goes on to tell about cars, the Great Depression, the Phillips family, the Women's Institute, Premier John Walter Jones, and the MacDonald Consolidated School. Mary then talks about trains, peddlers, holidays, her family's fruit orchard, forerunners, and going to work in Boston in 1925. There is also mention of Minnie McGee, the first women's vote, socials, and the Phillips' general store.

This interview is with Mary Emma (Jones) Phillips of Harrington, P.E.I. Mary begins by telling about her family and she and her brother going out to Saskatchewan to teach. She tells about her trip out West on the train, her father fishing lobster, their family farm in Harrington, and horses. She then talks about the first Women's Institute meeting in 1913, her brother George and other locals serving in WWI, and the school in Harrington. Mary then tells of Prince of Wales College where she studied to become a teacher and her years as a teacher in Brackley and Winsloe.