Gray, Tristan John and MacKay, Paul

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Interviewee: Clow, Roy
Audio engineer: Gray, Tristan John
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Roy speaks about the entrepreneur Albert Griffin and his many adventures. Most notably his time spent as a rum runner and bootlegger. Mr. Griffin travels to St. Pierre Miquelon several times for "hand brand" alcohol and other forms of drink. On one occasion his boat is impounded by the French authorities, and he rescues it from their docks. Mr. Clow then speaks of his own rum running adventures, nick names, his good friend Jack Westaway, and Jack's massive dog.
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Interviewee: O'Hanley, Joe
Audio engineer: Gray, Tristan John
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This is an interview with Joe O'Hanley. In this interview Joe talks about his family history, fishing, lobster canneries, drownings, home remedies, Dr. Roddie, superstitions, Gaelic, horses, butchers, shoveling snow for the railway, jobs he did, potato farming, chewing tobacco, and various other topics.
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Interviewee: Clow, Roy
Audio engineer: Gray, Tristan John
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Roy speaks of some of his firsts: buying his first boat, making his first moonshine and his first near death experience. He also talks of his neighbor Ben Miller and how he once stole a keg of rum from his brother Stanley. Roy also talks about work fishing when he was only 12, and about the time he and his good friend George once traded a few glasses of rum for all the supplies, and all the wood a man could ask for in Belle River.
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Interviewee: Hughes, Arthur
Audio engineer: Gray, Tristan John
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This interview is with Arthur Hughes talking about eggs saving farms because they are good for bartering, the family farm, cattle and cows, differences in growing potatoes, picking and spraying them, the first fertilizers, growing wheat, horses, apple orchards, the Milligan and Morrison race track, fish peddlers, lobster prices and packing, the first tractors and cars, WWI and WWII, the Halifax Explosion, changes in the economy, the Great Depression, and his first trip off the Island.
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Interviewee: Mutch, Keith
Audio engineer: Gray, Tristan John
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This is an interview with Keith Mutch. In this interview Keith talks about cars, ice travel, tractors, the family farm, the marine hospital, his grandfather, Christmas, W. N. Tanton's Clockl Shop, watches, ice, traveling, milk, home remedies, horses, rum running, an air crash in Southport, and various other topics.
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Interviewee: Pratt, Keith
Interviewee: Wilson, Rob
Audio engineer: Gray, Tristan John
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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.
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Rob Wilson talks about moving from the Bronx, New York to Iris, PEI. He tells a great story about telphones on PEI.
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In this interview with Robbie Robertson he talks about his father's shipbuilding, about the roads during his youth, trading fish during the Depression and how fishing has changed, rum running and tricks used to avoid the police, electricity, his first radio and the horrible condition of the roads during the 1930s. He goes on to talk about weather, picking blueberries, sharing the roads with cars and horses, supersitions on fishing boats, his first Christmas memories, lighthouses, and fishing crabs but not tuna.
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This is an interview with Marguerite Howatt. In this interview Marguerite talks about her family history, WWI, the Halifax Explosion, home remedies, lobster factories, her husband, couring, the 1930s, house parties, WWII, religion, cars, the Tuplins, foxes, radio, church, doctors, hockey and various other topics.
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This is an interview with Lillian MacEachern. In this interview Lillian talks about the phantom ship, Christmas, her father, the Harland, her father's shop, stores in Victoria, hotels, Billy Peters, hockey, her husbands, school, the Spanish Flu, home remedies, cars, electricity, pack peddlers, her parents, shipbuilding, lobster factories, Charlie Miller, and various other topics.