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Recording Details: Glenn Murphy:

SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:02:31 Discussion about how she got her name and her grandmother MacNeill; Bessie MacNeill, Bessie Donalds, William MacNeill, walking. 

SIDE A 00:02:31 -- 00:04:16 Discussion about home remedies; home remedies, salt herring. 

SIDE A 00:04:16 -- 00:06:53 Discussion about her grandmother Campbell and quit rents; Baltic, Fanning, quit rents. 

SIDE A 00:06:53 -- 00:09:01 Discussion about various topics including her marriage and her family; marriage, Wilfred Campbell, Alec Campbell, Park Corner, Sadie MacNeill. 

SIDE A 00:09:01 -- 00:11:16 Discussion about the Spanish Flu; Spanish Flu, French River, Campbell. 

SIDE A 00:11:16 -- 00:13:31 Discussion about her birth, midwives, and doctors; Park Corner, Dr. Keir, Mrs. Preston Champion. 

SIDE A 00:13:31 -- 00:14:20 Discussion about her father and chewing tobacco; chewing tobacco, twist tobacco, Wilfred Campbell. 

SIDE A 00:14:20 -- 00:15:22 Discussion about home remedies continues; home remedies, sulfur and molasses, cod liver oil. 

SIDE A 00:15:22 -- 00:16:26 Discussion about cars; cars. 

SIDE A 00:16:26 -- 00:17:42 Discussion about voting for the first time; women's rights, voting. 

SIDE A 00:17:42 -- 00:18:59 Discussion about quiet Sundays; Sundays, quiet Sundays. 

SIDE A 00:18:59 -- 00:25:42 Discussion about Lucy Maud Montgomery and their relation; Lucy Maud Montgomery, MacNeill. 

SIDE A 00:25:42 -- 00:26:30 Discussion about her siblings and chores on the farm; chores. 

SIDE A 00:26:30 -- 00:31:30 Discussion about her mother's cooking and baking; cooking, baking, bannock, jam, berries, Sadie MacNeill, Sadie Campbell, raspberries, blueberries, strawberries, buttermilk, apples, apple trees, orchards, apple varieties. 

SIDE A ends at 00:31:30.

SIDE B 00:31:39 -- 00:32:37 Discussion about her mother's cooking and baking continues; pies, cooking, baking, Sadie MacNeill, Sadie Campbell. 

SIDE B 00:32:37 -- 00:37:36 Discussion about her in-laws and their store; Eddie Murphy, Boston, Sea View, North Shore Packing Company, fires. 

SIDE B 00:37:36 -- 00:38:37 Discussion about horses and the telephone; horses, telephones. 

SIDE B 00:38:37 -- 00:39:50 Discussion about her family moving away and coming back to PEI; moving. 

SIDE B 00:39:50 -- 00:40:53 Discussion about mussel mud; mussel mud, fertilizer. 

SIDE B 00:40:53 -- 00:42:36 Discussion about traveling on the ice, horses, roads, and snow; horses, ice travel, roads, snow, smart horses, deep snow. 

SIDE B 00:42:36 -- 00:44:33 Discussion about seeing the Hindenburg; Hindenburg, zeppelins, 1935. 

SIDE B 00:44:33 -- 00:46:14 Discussion about the RAF during WWII; RAF, WWII, U-Boats. 

SIDE B 00:46:14 -- 00:48:18 Discussion about her marriage and life during the 1930s; marriage, 1934, weddings, poverty, Great Depression, Depression. 

SIDE B 00:48:18 -- 00:52:47 Discussion about homemade clothes, quilts, and hooking; flour bag clothes, homemade clothes, flour bags, quilting, quilts, hooking, quilting patterns. 

SIDE B 00:52:47 -- 00:57:48 Discussion about Christmas; Christmas, Christmas dinner, plum pudding, Christmas trees, presents. 

SIDE B 00:57:48 -- 01:00:11 Discussion about firewood and hard biscuits; firewood, biscuits, pigs, hard biscuits, lard. 

SIDE B 01:00:11 -- 01:01:17 Discussion about the 1956 ice storm; 1956, ice storm, electricity. 

SIDE B 01:01:17 -- 01:02:34 Discussion about school and wanting to be a nurse; school, nurses, nursing. 

SIDE B 01:02:34 -- 01:03:12 Discussion about her Aunt Marion; Marion Weeks. 

SIDE B 01:03:12 -- 01:03:32 Discussion about pack peddlers; pack peddlers. 
 Tape ends at 01:03:32.

Overview:

Interviewee(s):
Murphy (Campbell), Glenn

Playing Time:
01:03:32

Interview Date(s):
2009-01-12

Interview Summary:
This is an interview with Glenn (nee Campbell) Murphy of Irishtown, PEI. In this interview Glenn talks about her name, her grandparents, home remedies, marriage, the Spanish Flu, cars, Lucy Maud Montgomery, her mother's cooking and baking, the Hindenburg, quiet Sundays, quilting and hooking, mussel mud, horses, Christmas, and various other topics.

Place(s) Discussed:
Sea View, PE; Park Corner, PE; Irishtown, PE

Time(s) Discussed:
1930s, WWII, 1934, 1935

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