SIDE A 00:00:04 -- 00:02:01
Discussion about emigration from the Island and people living to be 100; emigration, age.
SIDE A 00:02:01 -- 00:04:55
Discussion about Roy Somers and working for the Compton's; Compton's, Bangor, utopia, mill, wages, Roy Somers.
SIDE A 00:04:55 -- 00:07:17
Discussion about his family in the U.S. continues; emigration, Peter Machon, Moore.
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SIDE A 00:07:17 -- 00:10:57
Discussion about the phantom ship and ghost stories; phantom ship, ghost stories, ghosts, Halloween, coffins.
SIDE A 00:10:59 -- 00:12:27
Discussion about Hedley Penny and lobster fishing; Hedley Penny, lobster fishing, lobster canning.
SIDE A 00:12:27 -- 00:15:43
Discussion about firewood and winters; firewood, winter, stoves, 1923, snow, deep snow.
SIDE A 00:15:43 -- 00:19:33
Discussion about electricity and indoor plumbing; electricity, lights, indoor plumbing, night soil, outhouses.
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SIDE A 00:19:33 -- 00:22:11
Discussion about Prowse's store, with mention of molasses; molasses, Prowse's store, Prowse, puncheons, swish, Gaelic.
SIDE A 00:22:11 -- 00:24:35
Discussion about Gaelic, with mention of Gordon Bell; Gaelic, Matheson, Margaret Bell, Gordon Bell.
SIDE A 00:24:35 -- 00:26:37
Discussion about work in the lumber woods, with mention of the lumber woods; lumber woods, moonshine, emigration.
SIDE A 00:26:37 -- 00:31:51
Discussion about airplanes, with mention of the Italian Air Force, an airplane with blown tires, and the Hindenburg; airplanes, Italian Air Force, Hindenburg.
SIDE A ends at 00:31:51.
SIDE B 00:31:58 -- 00:37:18
Discussion about his mill and grinding grain for animal feed; Purina, animal feed, mill, shorts, grain, Chet Irving.
SIDE B 00:37:18 -- 00:38:44
Discussion about rats; cats, rats, animal feed.
SIDE B 00:38:44 -- 00:40:26
Roy has a discussion about the Marconi mast on the telephone with Vic Brooks; Marconi mast, Vic Brooks, Hedley Penny.
SIDE B 00:40:26 -- 00:42:08
Discussion about his uncle John Brooks and his work on the Chignecto Ship Railway; John Brooks, Chignecto Ship Railway, railroad ties.
SIDE B 00:42:08 -- 00:43:11
Discussion about his grandfather working as a school teacher; teacher, John Brooks, Abney, class sizes.
SIDE B 00:43:11 -- 00:46:49
Discussion about pack peddlers, hobos, and a story about lice; lice, pack peddlers, peddlers, hobos, Raleigh man, George Mamie, Patty Lafferty, horse hair.
SIDE B 00:46:49 -- 00:48:05
Discussion about mining horses; mining horses, black oats.
SIDE B 00:48:05 -- 00:48:58
Discussion about tea rooms; Two Thelmas Tea Room, tea room, Burns.
SIDE B 00:48:58 -- 00:51:55
Discussion about Ches Cooper; Ches Cooper, Murray Harbour, Purina, singing, radio, CFCY.
SIDE B 00:51:55 -- 00:55:07
Discussion about rationing during WWII, with mention of coloured gas; rationing, WWII, sugar, bees, gasohol.
SIDE B 00:55:07 -- 00:57:27
Discussion about honey and bees; honey, bees, honeybees.
SIDE B 00:57:27 -- 01:01:39
Discussion about the big changes in his lifetime and what life was like growing up, with mention of changes in wildlife and medicine; travel, transportation, birds, eagles, owls, DDT, seagulls, Hungarian partridges, Poverty Beach, The Bluff.
SIDE B 01:01:39 -- 01:03:10
Discussion about pioneers, with mention of stumping and horses; Brooks, ancestors, pioneers, stumping.
SIDE B 01:03:10 -- 01:03:50
Discussion about marsh hay; marsh hay.
Tape end at 01:03:50.
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