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Contributors
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Date Recorded
1995-04-12
Date Digitized
2010-05-06
Abstract
This the second portion of an interview with Mary Emma (Jones) Phillips of Harrington, P.E.I. Mary very briefly continues talking about school, then she tells about the 1918 flu pandemic. She then tells about making clothes from wool and druggat, making soap, and talks about local doctors. She then goes on to tell about cars, the Great Depression, the Phillips family, the Women's Institute, Premier John Walter Jones, and the MacDonald Consolidated School. Mary then talks about trains, peddlers, holidays, her family's fruit orchard, forerunners, and going to work in Boston in 1925. There is also mention of Minnie McGee, the first women's vote, socials, and the Phillips' general store.
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:04:02
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
***Disclaimer - This interview contains language some may find inappropriate.
SIDE A 00:00:05 -- 00:00:15
Discussion about school continues from Tape One; school.

SIDE A 00:00:15 -- 00:03:10
Discussion about the 1918 flu pandemic; 1918, 1919, flu, epidemic, death.

SIDE A 00:03:10 -- 00:04:45
Discussion about her mother's broken wrists; family, injury.

SIDE A 00:04:45 -- 00:07:17
Discussion about wool, weaving, and the carding mill; sheep, wool, drugget, carding mill, weaving, dying.

SIDE A 00:07:17 -- 00:08:10
Briedf discussion about making soap and washing clothes; homemade soap, soap, washing clothes, lye.

SIDE A 00:08:10 -- 00:12:27
Discussion about local doctors, with a story of mending a girl's face; doctors, horses, Chief Justice John Matheson, Dr. Charles Matheson, Harrington, Dr. Martin, Donald Martin, Willy Martin.

SIDE A 00:12:27 -- 00:15:24
Discussion about the first cars she saw; cars, Theodore Abbott, Jim MacBeth, 1920, Ida MacBeth, Union Road, horses.

SIDE A 00:15:24 -- 00:18:50
Discussion about her family and life during the Great Depression; 1924, 1926, Great Depression, 1930s, family, Harrington, fox ranching, foxes, 1937.

SIDE A 00:18:51 -- 00:20:21
Brief discussion about the Phillips family, with mention of socials and entertainment; Phillips, family, 1912, chief of police, Welsh, socials, entertainment, dances, fiddle.

SIDE A 00:20:21 -- 00:23:16
Discussion about the Women's Institute, with mention of sending socks to WWI soldiers; socks, WWI, knitting, Women's Institute, Red Cross.

SIDE A 00:23:16 -- 00:24:06
Brief discussion about the first time women could vote; vote, women's vote, 1922.

SIDE A 00:24:06 -- 00:27:41
Discussion about Premier John Walter Jones and the MacDonald Consolidated School, with mention of Prince of Wales College; Briar Jones, John Walter Jones, MacDonald Consolidated School, 1912, Prince of Wales College, Premier.

SIDE A 00:27:41 -- 00:29:01
Brief discussion about taking the train and markets; Royalty Junction, trains, markets, train fare, Brackley Point Road.

SIDE A 00:29:01 -- 00:31:23
Discussion about peddlers, the Raleigh man, the Watkins man, and the old days; liniment, Raleigh man, Watkins man, peddlers, Raleigh's Liniment.

SIDE A 00:31:23 -- 00:31:54
Brief discussion about Minnie McGee; Minnie McGee, matches, poison, murder.

SIDE A ends at 00:31:54.
SIDE B 00:32:02 -- 00:33:21
Brief discussion about her good memory; memory.

SIDE B 00:33:21 -- 00:35:34
Discussion about Easter; Easter eggs, Easter eggs, Easter bunny, ice cream, White's.

SIDE B 00:35:34 -- 00:37:12
Discussion about Christmas; Christmas, dolls, bananas, oranges, presents.

SIDE B 00:37:12 -- 00:42:33
Discussion about fruit orchards and berry picking; orchards, apples, 1900, pears, fruit trees, cherries, jam, blueberries, strawberries, Harrington, market, cellar.

SIDE B 00:42:35 -- 00:45:06
Discussion about family; Jones, cancer, family, Sherwood, graves.

***Tape appears to have stopped at 00:47:16.
SIDE B 00:45:06 -- 00:48:12
Discussion about forerunners, with mention of family; forerunners, ghosts, Annie, Florence MacDonald, John Pope.

SIDE B 00:48:12 -- 00:58:32
Discussion about going down to the United States for work, with mention of her uncle John; Boston, housekeeper, trolley, kerosene lamp, wages, baking, cooking, donuts, 1924, Esther Wood.

SIDE B 00:58:34 -- 01:00:15
Discussion about real lemon pie and ice cream; lemon pie, ice cream, baking.

SIDE B 01:00:15 -- 01:01:42
Discussion about keeping ice; ice box, ice, sawdust.

SIDE B 01:01:42 -- 01:04:02
Discussion about molasses and the Phillips general store; molasses, puncheon, Phillips, general store, Harrington, Florence Pope, Joey MacDonald.

Tape ends at 01:04:02.