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File: gaudetdavid06-oh-declineandrevival_M.mp3

Speakers:

DG – David Gaudet

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

DG: When I was growing up to be a fiddler, there wasn't many around then. There's wasn't a big demand then. I wouldn't even take the fiddle to a party if there was a bunch my age

File: dayivan06-oh-findingthefiddler_M.mp3

ID – Ivan Day

JG – John Gauthier

ID: I remember there was a party back in Frank Murphy's one night up in Norboro, and they come to me, got me out of bed at 10 or 10:30. They want to have a dance back there. A bunch of them got together and

File: macintyrestewart-oh-farmlife_M.mp3

Speakers:

SM – Stewart MacIntyre

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

KP: If you lived on a farm when you were young about how many hours a day would you be working?

SM: There was really no such thing as as hours, it was sunrise

File: farrellleo06-oh-houseparties_M.mp3

Speakers:

LF – Leo Farrell

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

KP: Tell me about the house dances in your community?

LF: Well, put the table in the woodshed or outside in the summertime, haul the chairs all out and

File: cheveriecharles-oh-alchohol_violence_M.mp3

Speakers:

CC – Fr. Charlie Cheverie

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

CC: On the Island in particular, in the Prohibition days in particular, a lot of the drinking was done – First of all, drinking was done; people drank. But it

File: doucettejoe-oh-howlearned.mp3

Speakers:

JD – Joe Doucette

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

JD: I was 6 years old.

KP: How did you go about learning to play the fiddle?

JD: How'd I go about it? Go hide somewheres with the