File: mcpheedan-oh-dances_M.mp3
Speakers:
DM – Dan McPhee
HM – Hughie McPhee (Dan's brother)
DM There'd be dances during the summertime; there'd be dances in the schoolhouses. They'd be trying to raise some money to…
HM Repairs and paintin'
DM … repairs of the school, buying school books and pencils for some of the kids who couldn't afford it. Everybody was quite poor. And the church would have – There'd be church dances and that sort of thing. Then one of the things when I was growing up, they had – In Souris, Matthew & MacLean were general merchants there, and they were in the potato business of buying potatoes and shipping them. And during the summer, they had this huge warehouse, and every, I believe it was Wednesday night, there was a dance in the warehouse. And they'd have square dances in the one end and round dances in the other end. And that was quite an event; that picked up people from all over the country, you know.