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Recording Details: Mac Dixon T1 [Tape One]:

SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:12:55 Dixon family ancestors, the Andrews, Walter Bell, ice travel, his grandmother Dixon and another ice travel story; ice travel, Dixon, Andrews, ancestors, Walter Bell. 

SIDE A 00:12:55 -- 00:24:35 Muddy roads and the ambulance coming by boat, the family mill, and his father injuring his hand at the mill; accidents, mills, Dixon's mill, roads, ambulances. 

SIDE A 00:24:35 -- 00:31:34 His father John “Jack” H.B. Dixon, the remaining mill, installing new kinds of water wheels, mill stones, mills being very important, how oatmeal was made, and the mill toll; miller's toll, John Dixon, Jack Dixon, mills, water wheels, mill stones, oatmeal. 

SIDE A ends at 00:31:34.

SIDE B 00:31:43 -- 00:47:16 Discussion about school, the mill closing in 1942, flour, other mills, the sawmill, his grandmother running the carding mill and how it worked; carding mills, 1942, mills, school, flour, sawmills. 

SIDE B 00:47:16 -- 00:56:00 His siblings, the green sleigh, school, horses, story of his first horse, showing some of his horses, and ploughing; ploughing, plowing, sleighs, school, horses. 

SIDE B 00:56:00 -- 01:03:20 Story of a good horse, horse racing, horses from the west, horse breeds, and stallions; stallions, horse breeds, Western horses, horses, horse racing. 
 Tape ends at 01:03:20.

Overview:

Interviewee(s):
Dixon, Mac

Playing Time:
01:03:20

Interview Date(s):
0000-00-00

Interview Summary:
This is an interview with Mac Dixon. In this interview Mac talks about his family history, ice travel, his family's mill and other mills, horses, and farming.

Place(s) Discussed:

Time(s) Discussed:
1942

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