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Recording Details: Vernon McCarvill T1 [Tape One]:

SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:02:33 Discussion about his grandparents on his mother's side; Callaghan, Monaghan. 

SIDE A 00:02:33 -- 00:09:35 Stories from the Monaghan's funeral home; Ambrose Monaghan, funeral homes, caskets, coffins, Monaghan. 

SIDE A 00:09:35 -- 00:16:19 Discussion about his grandparents on the McCarvill side and stories about Shamrock; Rooney, Shamrock, Shamrock School, McCarvill. 

SIDE A 00:16:19 -- 00:23:26 Discussion about being a part of a large family, picking potatoes around the area and chores on the farm; chores, picking potatoes, big families. 

SIDE A 00:23:26 -- 00:25:41 Discussion about potato warehouses; potato warehouses. 

SIDE A 00:25:41 -- 00:27:16 Vernon talks about his large family again and their living arrangements; big families. 

SIDE A 00:27:16 -- 00:34:03 Discussion about their cold weather, prices for firewood, and big trees and stumps; trees, tree stumps, firewood, firewood prices, cold weather. 

SIDE A 00:34:03 -- 00:37:07 Discussion about used and flour bag clothing, snow storms, and telephone wires; telephone wires, clothing, flour bag clothes, flour bags, hand me downs, snow storms, storms. 

SIDE A 00:37:07 -- 00:39:15 Vernon describes breaking the roads with horses during the winter and road conditions; roads, breaking the roads. 

SIDE A 00:39:15 -- 00:42:20 Discussion about snow storms, farmers putting down a spike strip to stop cars from going near their horses, and when they switched from driving on the left to driving on the right; cars, driving, snow storms, roads. 

SIDE A 00:42:20 -- 00:45:30 Discussion about his father's farm and their large barn, their old horses and binders, and grain; grain, horses, binders, farming. 

SIDE A 00:45:30 -- 00:46:40 Discussion about thrashing; hired man, thrashing, thrshing machines. 

SIDE A 00:46:40 -- 00:47:41 Discussion about Hall sprayers; spraying, Hall sprayers. 

SIDE A ends at 00:47:41.

SIDE B 00:47:47 -- 00:48:46 Continuation of spraying stories; Bluestone, spraying. 

SIDE B 00:48:46 -- 00:49:35 Discussion about horsepower; horsepower. 

SIDE B 00:49:35 -- 00:51:02 Discussion about the Kinkora cheese factory; butter, cheese factories, Kinkora, milk. 

SIDE B 00:51:02 -- 00:53:50 Discussion about chewing tobacco and a story about racing an old man; races, chewing tobacco, tobacco. 

SIDE B 00:53:50 -- 00:56:19 Discussion about milking the cows and what they would feed the cattle; bulls, cattle, milking. 

SIDE B 00:56:19 -- 00:58:35 Discussion about the traveling man; traveling man, horse breeding, stallions. 

SIDE B 00:58:35 -- 01:00:26 Discussion about digging potatoes; potato digging, potato diggers. 

SIDE B 01:00:26 -- 01:03:56 Discussion about working with horses; horses. 

SIDE B 01:03:56 -- 01:05:59 Discussion about black oats, country vets and some horse sicknesses; horses, country vets, vets, veterinarians, black oats, oats. 

SIDE B 01:05:59 -- 01:07:07 Discussion about Western horses; Western horses, horses, horse prices. 

SIDE B 01:07:07 -- 01:10:06 Discussion about fox ranching; Wilbert McCarvill, slaughterhouses, foxes, fox ranching. 

SIDE B 01:10:06 -- 01:13:34 Discussion about a fish man who came around often and fishing in the summers; fishing, fish peddlers, fish. 

SIDE B 01:13:34 -- 01:15:45 Discussion about a snow storm in 1923 and trains that got stuck in the snow; snow, deep snow, snow storms, 1923, stuck trains, shoveling. 

SIDE B 01:15:45 -- 01:17:55 Discussion about sheep, carding mills, and where he saw his first gramophone; gramophones, sheep, carding mills, wool. 

SIDE B 01:17:55 -- 01:21:42 Discussion about gristmills and saw mills; gristmills, saw mills, Tryon. 

SIDE B 01:21:42 -- 01:22:30 Discussion about wheat; Robin Hood, flour, wheat. 

SIDE B 01:22:30 -- 01:26:20 Discussion about dry summers, The Great Depression, and loosing money on potatoes; potato prices, prices, economy, 1920s, 1930s, Great Depression. 

SIDE B 01:26:20 -- 01:17:28 Discussion about butter; butter, butter prices. 

SIDE B 01:17:28 -- 01:29:39 Discussion about beef and pork, and a story about selling a pig to the store; pigs, pork, beef. 

SIDE B 01:29:39 -- 01:31:25 Discussion about horses, horse traders, and tractors; horses, horse traders, tractors, mining horses. 

SIDE B 01:31:25 -- 01:34:22 Discussion about tractors and the first man who started growing seed potatoes; McIver, Charlottetown, convent, tractors, seed potatoes. 

SIDE B 01:34:22 -- 01:35:27 Discussion about his first car and a story about having three of them go on one ride to Cavendish; driving, traveling, cars, car prices. 
 Tape ends at 01:35:27.

Overview:

Interviewee(s):
McCarvill, Vernon

Playing Time:
01:35:27

Interview Date(s):
2004-01-07

Interview Summary:
This interview continues with Vernon McCarvill talking about his grandparents, stories from the Monaghan's funeral home, being a part of a large family, their cold family house and getting wood and what they would trade for it, road conditions in winter and using horses, cars, cows, travelling "stallion man", working with horses and the families favorite, foxes and breeding, mills, the depression, eating beef in winter, pork in the summer, and cheap animals except for horses.

Place(s) Discussed:
Shamrock, Ireland; Kinkora, PE; Charlottetown, PE; Tryon, PE

Time(s) Discussed:
1923, 1920s, 1930s, 1938

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