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Recording Details: Milton Buell T2 [Tape Two]:

SIDE A 00:00:05 -- 00:02:05 Discussion about cars; cars, Model-T Ford. 

SIDE A 00:02:05 -- 00:04:06 Discussion about chewing tobacco; chewing tobacco, twist tobacco. 

SIDE A 00:04:06 -- 00:05:33 Discussion about funerals and the Spanish Flu; funerals, Spanish Flu, Dr. Brehaut. 

SIDE A 00:05:33 -- 00:08:39 Discussion about self sufficiency and the carding mill; homemade clothes, weaving, self sufficiency, carding mills. 

SIDE A 00:08:39 -- 00:10:02 Discussion about wakes and funerals; wakes, funerals, caskets, coffins. 

SIDE A 00:10:02 -- 00:11:58 Discussion about ghost stories and forerunners; ghost stories, forerunners. 

SIDE A 00:11:58 -- 00:16:22 Discussion about school; school. 

SIDE A 00:16:22 -- 00:18:22 Discussion about the first radio he remembers; radio, Morley Smith, Atwater Kent. 

SIDE A 00:18:22 -- 00:19:22 Discussion about the Halifax Explosion; Halifax Explosion. 

SIDE A 00:19:22 -- 00:22:32 Discussion about fishing and shipping in Murray River and Murray Harbour; fishing, lobsters, shipping, Murray Harbour, Murray River, sailboats, schooners. 

SIDE A 00:22:32 -- 00:26:04 Discussion about rum running, with mention of poverty in the 1930s; rum running, 1920s, bootlegging, rum prices, 1930s, The Great Depression, poverty. 

SIDE A 00:26:04 -- 00:31:44 Discussion about fishing and home remedies; fishing, lobsters, home remedies, kerosene, cod liver oil, hake, haddock, fish. 

SIDE A ends at 00:31:44.

SIDE B 00:31:57 -- 00:33:57 Discussion about homemade toys and firewood; toys, tops, firewood. 

SIDE B 00:33:57 -- 01:03:38 Discussion about working at the orphanage in Mt. Herbert and the changes in the local area; 1929, orphanages, wages, Mt. Herbert, cheese factories, beater diggers, potato diggers, MacKenzie diggers, telephones, party lines, Mt. Herbert, Garnet Warren, orphanages, Mt. Herbert Consolidated School, skating rinks, Mt. Herbert Hall. 
 Tape ends at 01:03:38.

Overview:

Interviewee(s):
Buell, Milton

Playing Time:
01:03:38

Interview Date(s):
1995-02-27

Interview Summary:
This is an interview with Milton Buell of Abney, PEI. In this interview Milton talks about cars, chewing tobacco, Dr. Brehaut, funerals, poverty, the 1930s, shipping and fishing, school, radio, rum running, home remedies, Mt. Herbert, working at an orphanage, and various other topics.

Place(s) Discussed:
Murray Harbour, PE; Murray River, PE; Mt. Herbert, PE

Time(s) Discussed:
1920s, 1930s, 1940s

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