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Recording Details: Elsie Woodside:

SIDE A 00:00:06 -- 00:03:48 Discussion about her family; Welsey Haney, Clinton, Robert Haney, clothing, Florence Dennis, Margate, Dennis, Haney. 

SIDE A 00:03:48 -- 00:05:58 Discussion about midwives, doctors, and home remedies; Stewart, midwives, Seaview, Dr. Fleming, Stanley Bridge. 

SIDE A 00:05:58 -- 00:08:00 Discussion about various topics including school, deep snow, traveling, and farming; school, deep snow, traveling, trains, farming, chores. 

SIDE A 00:08:00 -- 00:10:22 Discussion about various topics including her husband Elton Woodside, school, cars, and Amy Bryanton; Elton Woodside, school, cars, courting, Tuplin, Amy Bryanton. 

SIDE A 00:10:22 -- 00:13:50 Discussion about various topics including entertainment, Kensington, pack peddlers, and the 1930s; entertainment, Kensington, Johnny Read, pack peddlers, 1930s. 

SIDE A 00:13:50 -- 00:16:00 Discussion about various topics including her marriage, courting, movies, and Kensington; marriage, courting, movie houses, Joe Bun Gaudet, silent movies, Kensington, Summerside. 

SIDE A 00:16:00 -- 00:18:24 Discussion about various topics including mills and self-sufficiency; mills, Peter Warren, self-sufficiency, homemade goods, butter. 

SIDE A 00:18:24 -- 00:29:48 Discussion about her husband Elton's plane, flying with him, air shows, and other pilots; Elton Woodside, pilots, Guardian, newspapers, planes, Flying Farmer, Maisie Adams, Dr. Beer, Fleet Canuck, Sally Large, Reg Pulp, Junior Jones, Pictou Island, air shows, helicopters, Wendell McNutt. 
 ***The remainder of

SIDE A, 00:29:48 -- 00:32:13, is blank.

SIDE A ends at 00:32:13.

SIDE B 00:32:19 -- 00:33:15 Discussion about the first airplane she remembers seeing; airplanes, Hindenburg. 

SIDE B 00:33:15 -- 00:36:58 Discussion about radio, telephones, and television; radio, telephones, televisions, television programs, Helen Herring. 

SIDE B 00:36:58 -- 00:43:22 Discussion about Elton's flying continues, with mention of their airstrip and their son Ralph; airstrip, pilots, airplanes, Elton Woodside, Ralph Woodside, airsickness. 

SIDE B 00:43:22 -- 00:45:37 Discussion about various topics including the Halifax Explosion, the Spanish Flu, and snowstorms in 1923; Halifax Explosion, Spanish Flu, 1923, snowstorms. 

SIDE B 00:45:37 -- 00:47:42 Discussion about various topics including egg trading, electricity, and the ice storm of 1956; eggs, egg trading, bartering, 1956, ice storm, electricity. 

SIDE B 00:47:42 -- 00:54:49 Discussion about various topics including skating, mussel mud, her family, and music; skating, hockey, mussel mud, music. 

SIDE B 00:54:49 -- 01:03:05 Discussion about various topics including changes over the years, lobsters, her family, and Elton's flying; illnesses, tuberculosis, lobsters, firewood, fertilizer, midwives, Flying Farmer. 
 Tape ends at 01:03:05

Overview:

Interviewee(s):
Woodside, Elsie

Playing Time:
01:03:05

Interview Date(s):
2010-01-24

Interview Summary:
This is an interview with Elsie Woodside from Clinton, P.E.I. In this interview Elsie talks about her family, midwives and doctors, snow, farming, her husband Elton "The Flying Farmer" Woodside and his airplane, their airstrip, flying, pilots, mussel mud, and various other topics.

Place(s) Discussed:
Clinton, PE; Summerside, PE; Kensington, PE

Time(s) Discussed:
1930s, 1923, 1956

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