SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:02:31
Why local farms had the house in the middle of the property and horses on the farm; farming, houses, horse.
SIDE A 00:02:31 -- 00:03:07
Local shipbuilding practices and the types of ships they built; boats, schooners, dories, shipbuilding, ships.
SIDE A 00:03:07 -- 00:04:43
The difference between his and his father's farms and the first tractor in the area; farming, horses, tractors.
SIDE A 00:04:43 -- 00:08:17
Ploughing an acre of land each day, haymaking, and his favorite horse; horses, hay, haymaking, ploughing, plowing.
SIDE A 00:08:17 -- 00:09:37
Digging potatoes by hand and planting them and varieties they planted included; potatoes, farming, horses, potato varieties.
SIDE A 00:09:37 -- 00:14:09
Thrashing and having their own mill; hay, thrashing, reapers, binders, mills, straw.
SIDE A 00:14:09 -- 00:15:21
Tractors in the area, the different types that people had, and ploughing fields; ploughing, plowing, farming, tractors.
SIDE A 00:15:21 -- 00:18:25
Bartering with the MacLeods or Jenkins in Vernon Beach, turnip prices, and schooners shipping to Nova Scotia; chickens, eggs, produce, potatoes, bartering, schooners, shipping, turnip prices, turnips.
SIDE A 00:18:25 -- 00:19:58
How people were self sufficient and what they ate; horses, chickens, pig, cow, dairy, self-sufficiency.
SIDE A 00:19:58 -- 00:22:29
Horsepower; horses, horsepower, hay, thrashing.
SIDE A 00:22:29 -- 00:27:21
Butter and cheese making factories in Lake Vernon, feeding pigs, and refuse from the factory; cheese, factory, co-op, pork, Lake Vernon, pigs, butter, milk, farming.
SIDE A 00:27:21 -- 00:28:46
Fishing smelts, lobsters and oysters at Vernon Bridge during the 1920s; lobster, fishing, oysters, Vernon River, Vernon Bridge, smelts, 1920s.
SIDE A 00:28:46 -- 00:31:43
His family from Orwell Cove; Orwell, Orwell Cove, cherries, blueberries, cooking.
SIDE A ends at 00:31:43.
SIDE B 00:31:51 -- 00:37:18
How the railroad went straight through his land, taking trips on the train, and shoveling them out during the winter; trains, railway, trips, steam, shoveling, winter.
SIDE B 00:37:18 -- 00:38:02
How the first cars were useless in the winter and wrapping the engines in blankets when they would travel; cars, winter, anti-freeze, blanket, trains.
SIDE B 00:38:02 -- 00:39:41
A special train for a scotch gathering excursion and a tea party; trains, tea party.
SIDE B 00:39:41 -- 00:41:53
His first car; cars, car prices.
SIDE B 00:41:53 -- 00:43:37
The Raleigh man and pack peddlers; pack peddlers, Raleigh man.
SIDE B 00:43:37 -- 00:46:15
Where people had their wakes and funerals and ghost stories; wakes, funerals, ghosts, ghost stories.
SIDE B 00:46:15 -- 00:49:15
Discussion about Hayden's grain mill and an accident that happened in the mill that killed a man; death, grain, wheat, accidents, Hayden's Mill.
SIDE B 00:49:15 -- 00:50:36
Foxes, raccoons, and coyotes: pests around the farm; foxes, raccoons, coyotes, pests.
SIDE B 00:50:36 -- 00:51:24
Fiddlers and how they were instrumental for all parties and dances; music, fiddlers, parties, dances, entertainment.
SIDE B 00:51:24 -- 00:52:29
A story about the fire at the McLeod's store in 1923; fires, accidents, 1923, McLeod's Store.
SIDE B 00:52:29 -- 00:53:13
The Vernon River post office and blacksmith shop; post offices, mail, blacksmiths, Vernon River.
SIDE B 00:53:13 -- 00:55:13
Prince the horse they had for driving and having to kill him at the age of 26 after an accident in the woods; horses, driving horses, accidents.
SIDE B 00:55:13 -- 00:56:14
Raising foxes for pelts and the Drake family; foxes, fox pelts, fox ranching, Drake.
SIDE B 00:56:14 -- 01:00:55
Liquor at the dances, how locals started to make it, and a short tale of some locals who had the police bust up their operation; police, rum runners, moonshine, alcohol, dance, liquor, dances.
SIDE B 01:00:55 -- 01:02:16
The 1930s, how times were tough, and how politicians haven't changed; Great Depression, poverty, polictians, politics, 1930s.
SIDE B 01:02:16 -- 01:03:46
Lester Hayden tricking the parks warden while fishing; tricks, fishing, Lester Hayden, characters.
Tape ends at 01:03:46.
