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Recording Details: Minnie Langille T1 [Tape One]:

SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:04:22 Discussion about her birth and her parents; 1919, midwives, Hazel Isaacson, Leonard Wilson. 

SIDE A 00:04:22 -- 00:05:45 Discussion about eggs, molasses, and bannock; molasses, eggs, bannock. 

SIDE A 00:05:45 -- 00:08:14 Discussion about her siblings, her name, and her grandparents; childbirth. 

SIDE A 00:08:14 -- 00:14:10 Discussion about home remedies, with a story about maple sugar; home remedies, car sickness, milk poultice, poultice, bealings, iodine, cures, fir bark, cod liver oil, maple sugar. 

SIDE A 00:14:10 -- 00:19:38 Discussion about school and walking in the snow; walking, snow, deep snow, school, Hedgeville, money, cars, skiing. 

SIDE A 00:19:38 -- 00:23:05 Discussion about her mother's cooking and homemade clothes, with mention of snow; cooking, homemade clothes, flour bag clothes, clothes, pillowcases, snow. 

SIDE A 00:23:05 -- 00:28:53 Discussion about knitting, wool, and quilting; sheep, wool, quilts, quilting, knitting, MacPherson's mill, dyes. 

SIDE A 00:28:53 -- 00:30:42 Discussion about pack peddlers; pack peddlers, Watkins man, Raleigh man. 

SIDE A 00:30:42 -- 00:31:52 Discussion about radios; radio, radios, radio programs. 

SIDE A ends at 00:31:52.

SIDE B 00:32:19 -- 00:35:32 Discussion about radios continues, with mention of the mail; radio, radios, radio programs, Lindbergh, 1932, mail. 

SIDE B 00:35:32 -- 00:39:57 Discussion about the telephone; telephones, party line. 

SIDE B 00:39:57 -- 00:46:02 Discussion about electricity and her home; electricity, power, 1952, light bulbs. 

SIDE B 00:46:02 -- 00:50:17 Discussion about Christmas and relatives in Boston; Boston, Christmas, care packages. 

SIDE B 00:50:17 -- 00:52:00 Discussion about seafood; seafood, fish, codfish, salt herring, lobster. 

SIDE B 00:52:00 -- 00:53:16 Discussion about mussel mud; mussel mud. 

SIDE B 00:53:16 -- 00:54:40 Discussion about potatoes, with mention of Christmas; Christmas, potatoes, cobblers, potato varieties. 

SIDE B 00:54:40 -- 00:56:12 Discussion about quiet Sundays and church; quiet Sundays, Sundays, church. 

SIDE B 00:56:12 -- 00:57:44 Discussion about River John; River John, general stores. 

SIDE B 00:57:44 -- 00:59:35 Discussion about milliners; milliners, hats. 

SIDE B 00:59:35 -- 01:02:01 Discussion about her father and his work as a blacksmith; blacksmiths, horseshoeing, welding, Leonard Wilson. 

SIDE B 01:02:01 -- 01:04:08 Discussion about traveling in the winter; pung sleigh, buffalo robes, sleighs, horse and sleigh, box sleighs. 
 Tape ends at 01:04:08.

Overview:

Interviewee(s):
Langille (Wilson), Minnie

Playing Time:
01:04:08

Interview Date(s):
0000-00-00

Interview Summary:
This is an interview with Minnie Langille (nee Wilson) of Hedgeville, NS. In this interview Minnie talks about her parents, food, her siblings, home remedies, school, snow, walking, homemade clothes, pack peddlers, radio, the telephone, electricity, Christmas, quiet Sundays, River John, her father's sleighs, and various other topics.

Place(s) Discussed:
River John, NS

Time(s) Discussed:
1952, 1932, 1919

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