Dunphy, Harold John

Model
Audio
Contributors
Interviewee: Dunphy, Claire
Interviewee: Dunphy, Harold John
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Abstract
This interview is with Harold John Dunphy of Millview, P.E.I. and his wife Claire. They start by telling about different classes on the trains, then tells a story about a missing priest, and goes on to talk about family. They discuss tractors, horses, moonshine and bootlegging, and stolen liquor. They go on to talk about wakes and funerals, ghost stories, dances and card games, local stores, tobacco, and wagons and sleighs. There is also mention of fox ranching, mussel mud, and baling hay.
Model
Audio
Contributors
Interviewee: Dunphy, Claire
Interviewee: Dunphy, Harold John
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Abstract
This is the second tape of an interview with Harold John and Claire Dunphy of Millview, P.E.I. Harold begins by telling about the Ings', midwives, moonshine, and the turnip plant. He then talks about thrashing grain, blocked roads, Peter Doucette, and patronage. The conversation then goes on to cover butter and starch factories, grist and saw mills, market days, and the Harland. They then discuss going in to town for meals, bushing the ice, patronage, Governor's Island, water witches, and finally dances and the 1930s.