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	Recording Title	Overview: This is an interview with Jimmy Doyle of Summerville, P.E.I. Jimmy begins by telling about his family and his first job. He then talks about blacksmiths, working in the lumber woods in New Brunswick, general stores, and school. Jimmy goes on to tell about his farm, gristmills and sawmills, and the first time he had electricity, telephones, and a radio. He then talks about dances, his grandparents, more about his farm, job and cars, his first tractor, and Gus Callaghan's store. The interview ends with a discussion of fiddlers and peddlers.
	Jimmy Doyle T1 [Tape One]
	Interviewee(s)
	Doyle, Jimmy
	Playing Times
	01:03:43
	1995-03-01

	Recording Title	Overview: Keith Pratt talks about his early days on the railway and in Western PEI. He focuses on the widening of the railway tracks and the switch from steam to diesel. Jean Pratt makes an appearance on SIDE B when the conversation shifts to how they met and Mrs. Pratt's first opinions of the Island and its people.
	Keith Pratt T2 [Tape Two]
	Interviewee(s)
	Pratt, Kieth and Jean
	Playing Times
	01:03:52
	2003-07-11

	Recording Title	Overview: Keith Pratt talks about how his grandfather came to live in West Prince and his grandfather opening the Pratt general store and the hardships that were incurred by everyone during The Great Depression. Other topics touched on in this recording include witches, Irish moss, being kicked out of church, and how Keith became a Conservative because of the Liberals.
	Keith Pratt T3 [Tape Three]
	Interviewee(s)
	Pratt, Keith
	Playing Times
	01:03:42
	2003-07-17

	Recording Title	Overview: This interview is with Manson Murchison talking about his families burial place, visting a Murchison monument in Scotland, and his ancestors. He goes on to talk about meeting his wife after WWII, lighthouses, how they worked and his life as a keeper, an ice storm in 1960, installing fog horns, a local historian, and the erosion of Point Prim.
	Manson Murchison
	Interviewee(s)
	Murchison, Manson
	Playing Times
	01:03:42
	0000-00-00

	Recording Title	Overview: 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.
	Mary Jone Phillips T2 [Tape Two]
	Interviewee(s)
	Phillips (Jones), Mary Emma
	Playing Times
	01:04:02
	1995-04-12

	Recording Title	Overview: This is an interview with Milton Buell of Abney, PEI. In this interview Milton talks about cars, chewing tobacco, Dr. Brehaut, funerals, poverty, the 1930s, shipping and fishing, school, radio, rum running, home remedies, Mt. Herbert, working at an orphanage, and various other topics.
	Milton Buell T2 [Tape Two]
	Interviewee(s)
	Buell, Milton
	Playing Times
	01:03:38
	1995-02-27

	Recording Title	Overview: This interview is with Ivan "Alkie" MacCormack of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. Alkie begins by telling the origin of his nickname. He then talks about playing baseball, Lefty McAleer, and the longest game. He goes on to tell about his service in Italy and Holland during WWII and meeting up with his brother Ken and Lefty in WWII. Alkie then talks about work and what Charlottetown was like after the war, his family, and working on a fox ranch as a teenager. He then tells about liquor and rum running, old factories, and the Depression. He returns to the topic of baseball, and mentions foul language and lack of respect nowadays. He mentions the Ghiz family and other Lebanese immigrants, and finishes by talking about his personal life and what he would change if he could do it all over again.
	Alkie MacCormack
	Interviewee(s)
	MacCormack, Ivan "Alkie"
	Playing Times
	01:03:59
	1994-03-30

	Recording Title	Overview: This is an interview with Donald Stewart MacNeil of Little Harbour, Pictou County, Nova Scotia. Donald starts of by telling about his entry into WWII and his beginnings as a pilot. He talks about the first plane he saw, his first ride, and the first time he flew a plane. He then tells about barnstorming, different pilots over the years, and the island of Tiree near Orkney in Scotland where he served for the RCAF. Donald tells of his days flying in Northern Scotland during WWII, and tells a story of dropping off a parcel for the lighthouse keepers of the Noup Head Lighthouse. He then talks about different planes, his logbook, and the time when he flew a plane with two of its four engines destroyed. Donald then tells of the troubles of flying over water and islands. He mentions a plane crash near Wick, tells of his crew of mixed nationalities, and talks about the social side of his service. Donald tells of various superstitions, briefly mentions life after the war, and reminisces of the good people of Northern Scotland where he served.
	Don MacNeil
	Interviewee(s)
	MacNeil, Donald Stewart
	Playing Times
	01:00:14
	2003-03-14

	Recording Title	Overview: Side A is a break down of Fiddler's war time experiences. Where he got his his training, and where he served. He gives out details about his injuries, and how he incurred them. He describes what it's like to be shot and how many Germans he killed. Mr. MacDonald also discusses what he did after the war, and how he came back to PEI on a yacht. Side B is a collection of stories about Fiddler and baseball as told by Brian Lewis, Bobby Lund, and Fiddler's good friend and catcher, George Smith.
	Fiddler MacDonald T2 [Tape Two]
	Interviewee(s)
	MacDonald, James Fiddler
	Playing Times
	01:03:46
	1994-11-08

	Recording Title	Overview: Keith Pratt talks about his trips to Boston and what he would bring back. He goes on to talk about working for the Metro Boston Transit Athority and how one day he saved a little girl who fell onto the tracks. After that he talks about his expeirences during the second world war and ghost stories on PEI. He finnishes up his final tape discussing his favorite books and musicians. ------------------------------------- Rob Wilson talks about moving from the Bronx, New York to Iris, PEI. He tells a great story about telphones on PEI.
	Keith Pratt T5 [Tape Five]
	Interviewee(s)
	Pratt, Keith and Wilson, Rob
	Playing Times
	00:57:04
	None listed.

	Recording Title	Overview: Keith Pratt talks about many different topics detailing his life in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s in rural Prince Edward Island. In this recording he talks about several of his firsts: his first expierences with planes, tractors, phones and radios. He also talks about evolution of egg grading stations, and what kind of people ate lobster in his early years. He also touches on Christmas time, pranks, and trains. One of his final topics is when power came to his home town in the 50's and how it was knocked out less than 6 months later by an ice storm.
	Keith Pratt T4 [Tape Four]
	Interviewee(s)
	Pratt, Keith
	Playing Times
	01:03:51
	2003-07-24

	Recording Title	Overview: This interview is with Vern Handrahan of Charlottetown, one of only two Islanders to play Major League Baseball. Vern begins the interview by telling about playing baseball growing up. He then talks about his journey through the minor leagues, playing in both Canada and the United States, and how he finally made it to the big leagues. Throughout the interview he tells about local talent, Major League Baseball stars, and his favourite memories from his baseball career.
	Vern Handrahan
	Interviewee(s)
	Handrahan, Vern
	Playing Times
	00:57:11
	1994-08-10

	Recording Title	Overview: Addie Hamm of Bunbury, PEI talks about growing up in the 1920s and 1930s. She and Dutch chat about her first memories when she and her younger brother had a funeral for a dead chicken, sending care packages to the wrong soldier, and "Indians" in Bunberry. Mrs. Hamm also touches on other topics such as her family name, trains, the Hillsborough River railroad bridge, slaughtering pigs, street cleaning in Chatlottetown, jams, strawberry picking, painting the family house using seaweed, molasses, nice dogs, socials, performing plays, concerts and care packages.
	Addie Hamm T1 [Tape One]
	Interviewee(s)
	Hamm, Addie
	Playing Times
	01:03:45
	1995-02-24

	Recording Title	Overview: This interview is with J. Lorne Stevenson of New Glasgow, P.E.I. Lorne begins by telling about planning to join the army during WWI, but joining the navy instead. He tells about training in Halifax, crossing the Atlantic to Liverpool, his navy uniform, Islanders in WWI, the HMS Goshawk, and sunken ships. The then talks about minesweepers, German ships and U-boats, Ireland, life on the boat, and Armistice Day. Lorne then tells about trying to join the navy during WWII, the history of his house, horses and farming, and recites poetry from the temperance movement. He then talks about church services, ministers, blacksmiths, millers and mills, and potato farming. Throughout the interview he mentions family, farming, and local businesses on several occasions.
	Lorne Stevenson
	Interviewee(s)
	Stevenson, J. Lorne
	Playing Times
	01:36:02
	1995-04-11

	Recording Title	Overview: This is an interview with Harold Linkletter of Linkletter, PEI. In this interview Harold talks about home remedies, horses, rum running, dance halls, Summerside, mills, his ancestors, tuberculosis, his parents and grandparents, forerunners and superstitions, foxes, Western horses, cars, and various other topics.
	Harold Linkletter T1 [Tape One]
	Interviewee(s)
	Linkletter, Harold
	Playing Times
	01:03:28
	1997-09-30

	Recording Title	Overview: This is an interview with John W. MacEachern. In this interview John talks about the hot springs, Canavoy, school, mills, horses, blacksmiths, his father, fishing, berries, cold storage, sharks and whales, Mt. Stewart, boats, and various other topics.
	John W. MacEachern
	Interviewee(s)
	MacEachern, John W.
	Playing Times
	01:03:30
	1995-04-24