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Recording Details: George Hart T2 [Tape Two]:

SIDE A 00:00:05 -- 00:00:54 Discussion about movies; movies. 

SIDE A 00:00:54 -- 00:03:18 Discussion about horse races on the ice, ice travel, and skating; horse races, ice travel, skating. 

SIDE A 00:03:18 -- 00:04:54 Discussion about biking, with mention of biking from Charlottetown to O'Leary, and sports; biking, bicycle, rugby, sports. 

SIDE A 00:04:54 -- 00:12:11 Discussion about rivalries and religious feuds, with mention of people he played rugby with; Queen's Square School, rivalries, religion, religious feuds, hospitals, Protestants, Catholics, segregation, West Kent School, Sam Kennedy, Keith Acorn, football, rugby. 

SIDE A 00:12:11 -- 00:17:12 Discussion about his service in the navy during WWII; navy, education officer, U-boats, WWII, Londonderry, bombing, German bombing, Herman. 

SIDE A 00:17:12 -- 00:19:19 Discussion about theatre; theatre, Acadia University, Shakespeare. 

SIDE A 00:19:19 -- 00:20:33 Discussion about the Upton airfield; Upton, Upton airfield, airfield, Dr. Jenkins. 

SIDE A 00:20:33 -- 00:22:08 Discussion about blackface in theatre; blackface, theatre. 

SIDE A 00:22:08 -- 00:24:21 Discussion about the biggest changes over the years and life growing up in the 1930s; Charlottetown, 1930s, Brighton. 

SIDE A 00:24:21 -- 00:26:24 Discussion about his family and going over to England; Ernest Hart, London, Hart. 

SIDE A 00:26:24 -- 00:28:02 Discussion about home remedies; home remedies, cures, goose grease, Friar's balsam. 

SIDE A 00:28:02 -- 00:31:56 Discussion about different places he lived and work he did as a social worker, with mention of his mother; social worker, Children's Aid Society, child welfare, United Way, jam, cooking. 
 Tape ends at 00:31:56.

Overview:

Interviewee(s):
Hart, George Edward

Playing Time:
00:31:56

Interview Date(s):
2009-07-22

Interview Summary:
This is an interview with George Edward Hart of Brighton in Charlottetown, P.E.I. In this interview George talks about movies, theatre, ice travel, biking, sports, rivalries and religious feuds, his service in the navy during WWII, the Upton airfield, family, home remedies, and his work in social work and child welfare.

Place(s) Discussed:
Brighton, PE; Charlottetown, PE; London, England

Time(s) Discussed:
WWII, 1930s

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