SIDE A 00:00:04 -- 00:13:09
Discussion about his years as a lobster fisherman, with stories about fog a storms; Bill Hickey, Ed Hickey, lobster fishing, lobster boats, Fish Island, boat engines, lobster prices, Charlie Barrett, lobster canneries, lobster factories, bait, fog, cod fishing, storms, fishermen, McNutt, Fred Bennet, fishing.
SIDE A 00:13:09 -- 00:21:32
Discussion about running the Fish Island Lighthouse, with mention of dances; lighthouses, dances, salary, kerosene, Fish Island, Fish Island Lighthouse, Peter Hickey.
SIDE A 00:21:32 -- 00:22:28
Discussion about fishing schooners; fishing schooners, schooners, coal, McNutt.
SIDE A 00:22:28 -- 00:31:30
Discussion about rum running and stories about finding kegs of rum and visiting a rum boat; rum runners, rum running, cigarettes, cigarette prices, moonshine, kegs of rum, rum boats, 3 mile limit, schooners, 1923, prohibition.
SIDE A ends 00:31:30.
SIDE B 00:31:58 -- 00:33:56
A story about visiting a rum boat continues; rum running, rum runners, rum, Newfoundlanders.
SIDE B 00:33:56 -- 00:41:25
Discussion about rum running with stories about rum runners, taverns, and drinking rum; rum, Clovey Perry, Andrew Perry, Indian River, taverns, rum runners, rum running, Captain Dicks, Nellie J. Banks, 1920s.
SIDE B 00:41:25 -- 00:47:56
Discussion about fishing continues with a story about working at a lobster factory and mention of cod and herring; lobster factories, cod, cod fish, herring, fishing, cod fishing, cod prices.
SIDE B 00:47:56 -- 00:49:33
Discussion about ploughing on the farm; ploughing, plowing.
SIDE B 00:49:33 -- 00:54:54
Discussion about mussel mud, bushing the ice, and a story about a horse falling through the ice; mussel mud, bushing the ice.
SIDE B 00:54:54 -- 00:56:56
Discussion about boats to Halifax and ice boats; ice boats.
SIDE B 00:56:56 -- 00:59:33
Discussion about WWI and smelt fishing; WWI, smelt prices, smelt fishing.
SIDE B 00:59:33 -- 01:30:20
Discussion about cars; cars, Durant Star.
Tape ends at 01:30:20.
