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PM – Paul MacDonald

PM: Recently I was up to Richmond, the Richmond MacKinnon Festival [the Richmond Scottish Music & Dance Festival], and watched Jerry Holland play, of course. I've seen Jerry play many times, and I guess it's getting

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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'

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AS – Archie Stewart

AS: Back then in the Depression, we had no entertainment. There was no radios, there was no television, and that was the only entertainment we had. You know in the wintertime probably once a week

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EC – Ella Thomson Chappell

EC: And then I remember when I went to school, there's no snow plows then, and then we'd go through the field. They'd break a road with the horse and sleigh, and then they'd go and take branches off a

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RM – Reg Mellish

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

KP: Was there music in your house?

RM: No.

KP: Was there music in your community?

RM: Not much, not at that

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KD – Kathryn Dau Schmidt

KD: Some of those kids that are doing so beautifully now just started right then. They were 5 and 6 years old, some were 7. So they had a little start but they pretty much started with me