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Recording Details: Ed Wood T2 [Tape Two]:

SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:10:27 Ed’s father going on the Harvest Excursion, people packing up and leaving PEI after the second world war, his aunt going down to Miami, his first experience with cars and some of his favorite memories of them; cars, Harvest Excursion, WWII, Miami. 

SIDE A 00:10:27 -- 00:20:35 The Halifax Explosion, how he got a nasty scar, midwives, home remedies, flour bag clothing, his grandmother from Annandale, and the store she helped run there; tansy, Annandale, home remedies, flour bags, flour bag clothing, midwives, scars, Halifax Explosion, stores. 

SIDE A 00:20:35 -- 00:26:59 Seeing a stunt plane crash and seeing the pilot die, local stores in the Pownal area, boxing in Pownal, and rum runners in the area; Pownal, planes, plane crashes, accidents, stores, boxing, rum runners, rum running. 
 ***The tape goes silent from 00:26:59 to 00:28:00 and Dutch tests the tape from 00:28:00 to 00:29:22.

SIDE A ends at 00:29:22.

SIDE B 00:29:29 -- 00:41:00 Discussion about selling rum, a doctor who loved rum, holes in the ground from people burying 5 gallon kegs, Christmas, keeping geese, buying a bicycle, telephones, pack peddlers, and hobos; hobos, pack peddlers, bicycles, geese, Christmas, rum, kegs of rum, doctors. 

SIDE B 00:41:00 -- 00:50:44 Being in the army reserves during WWII, rationing, apples on the farm, apple varieties, potatoes, people living longer, skating, and coaching hockey; hockey, coaches, skating, WWII, rationing, apples, apple varieties, potatoes, age. 

SIDE B 00:50:44 -- 00:55:47 How he stays so young, making jam, a photo of race horses, and how a horse got her name; horses, jam, horse races, age. 
 ***The remainder of the tape, 00:55:47 -- 01:01:32 is blank. Tape ends at 01:01:32.

Overview:

Interviewee(s):
Wood, Ed

Playing Time:
01:01:32

Interview Date(s):
0000-00-00

Interview Summary:
This is an interview with Ed Wood. In this interview Ed talks about the Harvest Excursion, cars, the Halifax Explosion, midwives, home remedies, homemade clothing, stores, planes, Pownal, boxing, rum runners, Christmas, pack peddlers, WWII, farming, skating, hockey, horses, and various other topics.

Place(s) Discussed:
Pownal, PE

Time(s) Discussed:
WWII

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