Audio file
Contributors
Interviewee: Clow, Roy
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Date Recorded
2003-09-03
Date Digitized
2010-02-16
Abstract
***This interview begins at roughly 255 on side B of a tape titled "Sheldon Coffin".
***This tape is titled "Politics".

This brief portion of an interview with Roy Clow focuses on political elections. The interview begins by telling about two politicians who were always fighting, and a story of Roy's father (a conservative) drinking and dining with a member of the liberal party. He then goes on to tell about the meetings, particularly Cambridge Hall, that always turned out be a "real circus". Roy then tells about a fight in the streets of Montague that was a result of an argument started at one of the meetings. Clow then talks about candidates "buying" votes with pints of rum, including a story of a candidates hidden rum that ended up being stolen by kids.
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
00:16:43
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
***The following is listed as side B because it is on side B of the Sheldon Coffin tape. It began at ~255 using our counter as reference.
SIDE B 00:00:00 -- 00:00:09
Microphone Test
SIDE B 00:00:10 -- 00:08:30
Discussion about two prominent politicians, their distaste for each other, dinner and drinks at Roy's father's house, and the heated debates at local meetings; Tom Grant, Steve, Montague, car, fight, vote, politics, Cambridge Hall, meetings, dinner, rum, model-T Ford, liberal, conservative, debate.

SIDE B 00:08:31 -- 00:12:24
Discussion about a fight in Montague a few days after an argument at a political meeting, Roy's father being a good conservative, and how people attended the political meetings just to see the fights; fight, Montague, street, Cambridge, stake, Tom, ear, meetings, politics, conservative, rum, liberal.

SIDE B 00:12:25 -- 00:14:18
Discussion about political candidates "buying" votes with pints of rum, and the meetings being a "real circus"; rum, pint, vote, politics, fights, keg, elections.

SIDE B 00:14:18 -- 00:16:43
Discussion about two young boys stealing hidden rum from one of the candidates, and candidates buying rum from the runners near Murray Harbour; kids, boys, hidden, rum, pint, election, Montague, Murray Harbour, rum runner, vote.

Tape ends at 00:16:43.
*** Tape ends mid-sentence.