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Recording Details: Elmer Furguson T2 [Tape Two]:

SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:10:19 A good horse, horses in town, racing on the harbor ice, the Butts; shooting ranges, Butts, horses, horse races, ice racing. 

SIDE A 00:10:19 -- 00:16:27 Orphanage bricks, Solomon Mutch, apples, Bryer Jones' father, foxes, ducks, hens and butchers; butchers, hens, ducks, foxes, Bryer Jones, Solomon Mutch, orphanages. 

SIDE A 00:16:27 -- 00:25:25 Livery stables, milk horses, Drake the iceman, his mother's cooking, hiding cookies, and a few stories about horses; horses, livery stables, Drake, milk, cooking. 

SIDE A 00:25:25 -- 00:31:40 His first car, his grandfather the railroad conductor, hay making, hay forks, and picking potatoes while on strike; cars, 1955, conductors, hay, potato picking. 

SIDE A ends at 00:31:40.

SIDE B 00:31:51 -- 00:43:15 His first time off PEI, race tracks, traveling with horses by train, Halifax, and only betting 2 times in his life; 1929, traveling, race tracks, horse, Halifax. 

SIDE B 00:43:15 -- 00:50:00 Home remedies, The Market Square, fish, meat, and the scales on Queen Street; scales, goose grease, onions, vinegar, cod liver oil, home remedies, Market Square, Charlottetown. 

SIDE B 00:50:00 -- 00:57:45 Deep snow at the race track, the Riverside dump, the PEI hospital and Falconwood farm; hospitals, Falconwood, race trackss, dumps, deep snow. 

SIDE B 00:57:45 -- 01:02:38 The old rail road bridge, seeing Kelly's cutting from his home, changes, the first airplane he saw, and bootleggers; bootleggers, bridges, airplanes. 
 Tape ends at 01:02:38.

Overview:

Interviewee(s):
Furguson, Elmer

Playing Time:
01:02:38

Interview Date(s):
0000-00-00

Interview Summary:
This is an interview with Elmer Furguson. In this interview Elmer talks about horses, racing on the ice, livery stables, ice, cars, farming, traveling, home remedies, Market Square, horse races, Falconwood, airplanes, bootleggers, and various other topics.

Place(s) Discussed:
Charlottetown, PE

Time(s) Discussed:
1955, 1929

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