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Recording Details: Kay Jelley T1 [Tape One]:

SIDE A 00:00:06 -- 00:04:34 Discussion about how she met her husband Earle Jelley, with a story about a broken car; Earl Jelley, courting, geese, car. 

SIDE A 00:04:34 -- 00:06:19 Discussion about school; school, teacher, school teacher, O'Leary. 

SIDE A 00:06:19 -- 00:07:56 Discussion about going to Prince of Wales College with Earle; Prince of Wales College. 

SIDE A 00:07:56 -- 00:11:25 Discussion about being unable to smell, with a story about Dr. Grant and chamber pots; sense of smell, Dr. Grant, chamber pots. 

SIDE A 00:11:25 -- 00:16:15 Discussion about about boarding in Charlottetown while attending Prince of Wales College, with mention of going to Market Square; Prince of Wales College, boarding, Lafferty's boarding house, Basil McWade, Clinton Morrison, Chesley Hughes, boarding prices, railway men, Market Square. 

SIDE A 00:16:15 -- 00:20:45 Discussion about teaching on Murray Road, with mention of walking and stories about the winters; winter, walking, teaching, teacher, school, Murray Road, deep snow, wages, salary, supplement. 

SIDE A 00:20:45 -- 00:24:54 Discussion about her sick father-in-law, with mention of her family and Earle's teaching; principal, tic douloureux, teaching, father-in-law, needles, operation, painkillers. 

SIDE A 00:24:54 -- 00:27:03 Discussion about gender roles, with a story about her father cooking; gender roles, cooking. 

SIDE A 00:27:03 -- 00:32:02 Discussion about her mother's work as a midwife; midwife, wages, midwives. 

SIDE A 00:32:02 -- 00:33:45 A story about her sister helping Dr. George Dewar after his stroke; stroke, Dr. George Dewar. 

SIDE A 00:33:45 -- 00:36:28 Discussion about tough times growing up, with mention of the Halifax Explosion and plug tobacco; Halifax Explosion, tough times, Summerside, supplies, plug tobacco, tobacco, Hickey and Nicholson. 

SIDE A 00:36:28 -- 00:37:45 A story about a corpse and chewing tobacco; twist, chewing tobacco, undertaker. 

SIDE A 00:37:45 -- 00:47:29 Discussion about tobacco and home remedies, with mention of smallpox; home remedies, tobacco, sulfur and molasses, 1918, sulfur and lard, lice, salt herring, smallpox, Dr. Stewart, cod liver oil, itch, red precipitate, Victoria West, fumigation. 

SIDE A ends at 00:47:29.

SIDE B 00:48:07 -- 00:52:39 Discussion about her family, with mention of her brother Jim; Newtown Cross, Boston, real estate. 

SIDE B 00:52:39 -- 00:53:53 Discussion about her father and work he did; road work, Boston, carpenter, Liberal, wages. 

SIDE B 00:53:53 -- 00:56:32 Discussion about chores on the farm growing up, with mention of horses and milking cows; chores, milking, horses. 

SIDE B 00:56:32 -- 01:00:14 Discussion about teaching, with mention of discipline and bad students; students, strap, teacher, switch. 

SIDE B 01:00:14 -- 01:06:55 Discussion about the Spanish Flu, moving houses, and her mother's hard work; moving houses, moving buildings, MacKay's Bridge, Freeland. 

SIDE B 01:06:55 -- 01:15:25 A story about going to Boston with her mother, a story about a new coat, and a discussion about homemade clothes; Boston, traveling, clothing, Will Miller, tailor, homemade clothes, wool, McAusland's mill, drugget, theft. 

SIDE B 01:15:25 -- 01:17:08 Discussion about the history of the Hendersons, with mention of Cody Banks; Henderson, Grand River, Freeland, James Henderson, Cody Banks. 

SIDE B 01:17:08 -- 01:20:57 Discussion about religion and feuds between churches; religion, church, Protestant, Presbyterian, Roman Catholic, Baptist, church union, Freeland. 

SIDE B 01:20:57 -- 01:29:48 Discussion about her sister Alice's sons, with mention of WWI, smallpox, cancer, and a car accident; WWII, RCAF, cancer, smallpox, car accident, pilot, 1945. 

SIDE B 01:29:48 -- 01:35:34 A story about going to the hospital with tonsillitis on her trip to Boston, with mention of Santa Claus; tonsillitis, Boston, appendicitis, trains, Santa Claus. 
 Tape ends at 01:35:34. ***Tape ends mid-sentence.

Overview:

Interviewee(s):
Jelley, Kathleen "Kay" H.

Playing Time:
01:35:34

Interview Date(s):
2001-11-19

Interview Summary:
This is the third of six tapes with Kathleen "Kay" H. Jelley of Freeland, Unionvale, and O'Leary P.E.I. In this interview Kay talks about her husband Earle, her family, going to Prince of Wales College and her work as a teacher, home remedies, trips to Boston, religion and feuds between churches, and moving houses.

Place(s) Discussed:
Freeland, PE; Charlottetown, PE; Boston, MA

Time(s) Discussed:
1918, 1945, WWII

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