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Recording Details: Roy Clow T12 [Tape Twelve]:

***Disclaimer - This interview contains some profanity and language some may find inappropriate.

SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:01:41 Roy speaks of a school bus that was hit by a train; trains, accidents, drunk driving. 

SIDE A 00:01:41 -- 00:07:51 Discussion about a blacksmith who made stills and shipped them on the bus and Roy's brother trying to make moonshine; alcohol, moonshine, stills, prohibition. 

SIDE A 00:07:51 -- 00:11:22 Roy pays for a boat with beef, six bags of potatoes, and thirteen dollars; money, bartering, boats. 

SIDE A 00:11:22 -- 00:21:14 Roy continues on the earlier story about his rum, the fishing boat, and the sea captain he worked for; fishing, alcohol, moonshine, prohibition, sea captains, money, wages, sailing, lobster, rum. 

SIDE A 00:21:14 -- 00:28:54 Roy briefly talks about the starch factory in Murray Harbour and how he drove from Halifax back to PEI with a load of potatoes to the starch factory in Hunter River; potatoes, starch factories, Hunter River, trucking, rum, 1950s, traveling, Halifax, drinking. 

SIDE A 00:28:54 -- 00:31:56 Roy builds another boat and his friend Lorne offers him free wood; boats, shipbuilding. 

SIDE A ends at 00:31:56.

SIDE B 00:32:04 -- 00:38:40 George and Roy decide to go oyster fishing in Charlottetown in the winter and stop in Belle River to buy lumber and end up trading a few drinks of rum to the store keeper for all the supplies they need; trading, rum, Belle River, jelly, jam, bread, beans, sugar, potatoes, bacon, fishing, oysters, winter, Charlottetown, bartering. 

SIDE B 00:38:40 -- 00:44:11 George and Roy then decided to build their oyster scow on the Belle River Wharf and that night the shopkeeper offers to give them more goods and the lumber in exchange for rum; alcohol, wharves, Belle River, rum, prohibition, boats, shipbuilding, Ben Miller. 

SIDE B 00:44:11 -- 00:48:44 Roy talk about drink prices and how they used to trade food that their mother made for rum; rum, alcohol, whiskey, rum prices, cigarettes, rum runners, prohibition. 

SIDE B 00:48:44 -- 00:58:56 A story about how Ben Miller stole a 10 gallon keg of rum from Roy's brother Stanley and how Ben's wife and mother-in-law drank almost all of the rum; rum, stolen rum, prohibition, kegs of rum, swing chair, Ben Miller, Stanley Clow. 

SIDE B 00:58:56 -- 01:02:31 Ben Miller's brother-in-law Milton come down and get lumber to trade for booze and his mother demands a drive to Clow's Store; drunk, Compton, alcohol, prohibition, bartering, Ben Miller. 

SIDE B 01:02:31 -- 01:04:06 The Comptons and how they had their own church; inter-marriage, inbreeding, marriage, churches, Compton. 
 Tape ends at 01:04:06.

Overview:

Interviewee(s):
Clow, Roy

Playing Time:
01:04:06

Interview Date(s):
2006-08-11

Interview Summary:
Roy speaks of some of his firsts: buying his first boat, making his first moonshine and his first near death experience. He also talks of his neighbor Ben Miller and how he once stole a keg of rum from his brother Stanley. Roy also talks about work fishing when he was only 12, and about the time he and his good friend George once traded a few glasses of rum for all the supplies, and all the wood a man could ask for in Belle River.

Place(s) Discussed:
Murray Harbour, PE; Belle River, PE; Hunter River, PE; Halifax, NS; Charlottetown, PE;

Time(s) Discussed:
1920s, 1930s, 1960s

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