Bowing Down Home Oral History Transcripts

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Speakers

EPA: Edward P Arsenault

ML: Marie Arsenault Livingstone

KP: Curator Ken Perlman

KP: Your parents, did they fish or were they farmers?

EPA: They farmed, pretty well.

KP

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Speakers

JB: Jackie Biggar

JB: We'd used to go out to my uncle's place there; he'd have three or four parties a the summer, George milligan, we'd go there and play probably from 9 o'clock to 2 or 3 in the morning. They used

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Speakers:

EG – Ernie Gallant

PD – Pat Doucette

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

They were up to three or four parties a week. One house would have it one night, then they'd take a night off and another house would have it

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Speaker:

PD – Pat Doucette

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

KP: Were you born on a farm?

PD: No, a little fishing village. Dad used run the Post Office; he worked the lumber woods. We had guitars in the house, and one of my brothers he

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Speakers:

MS – Mary Smith

MS: I was born in a lighthouse in North Rustico. My Dad [George Pineau] was a lighthouse keeper and he was a fisherman. And he was a lighthouse keeper for 34 years.

KP: You say he played the fiddle

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Speakers:

CT – Cecil Trainor

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

KP: The community was called Peake's Station?

CT: Yes.

KP: Did you grow up in a family where people played music.

CT: My

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Speakers:

TW – Teresa MacPhee Wilson

JM – Jenny O'Hanlon McQuaid

TW I heard my mother sayin' that, before her time, when she was younger growin' up, they had two - They called them "tuners," two women or a man and a woman - They'd sit on

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Speakers:

CW – Clifford Wedge

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

CW: When we were younger, we used to do a lot of jigging; just as kids, fooling around. not at the dances.

KP: When? Was it a game?

CW: Maybe going along the road (

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Speakers:

DP – Dennis Pitre

VD – Vincent Doucette

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

KP: Did you get encouraged in your house?

DP: No, there was no music – Well, on my mother's side side, but she didn't play anything

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Speakers:

JM – Johnny Morrissey

JM There was an old fellow from Mt. Stewart, Lem Jay, did you hear tell of him? And every New Years he'd go into Charlottetown – When radios came out first, it was a long time ago, he'd go into

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Speakers:

EH – Emmett Hughes

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

EH: Back then all the weddings were at home, and it was a big deal. The weddin' part was an odd time in the house too, but most of the time it was in the church. But then

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Speakers:

AO- Attwood O'Connor

KP: Curator Ken Perlman

AO: The worst job I think there was, was haying and potatoes. Oh I detested them two jobs. Had to work by hand, fork the hay by hand. Fork it on the wagon and sometimes fork it off

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Speakers:

LM – Largus MacInnis

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

LM See, when radio started coming in, well, probably there'd be a place that had a radio, and there'd be old time music on sometimes, and there'd be a crowd gather in to

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Speakers:

JM – Joe MacDonald

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

JM: Well, there was an Indian village around here, and there was about four fiddlers there, permanently.

KP: Were they Mi'kmaq fiddlers?

JM Yeah.

KP Do you

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Speakers:

GC – Gary Chipman

KP – Ken Perlman

KP: Were there fiddlers in particular that you liked to listen to?

GC: Messer!

KP: Messer.

GC: Don Messer was really the only one I heard. That was only show that was on the