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Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Ervin Rafferty, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Especially in the winter, Christmas: cards, lunch, music
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Ervin Rafferty, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Auctioned a basket of food, had a card game and then a dance
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Ervin Rafferty, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Gathering marsh hay for winter cattle feed; gathering cranberries and winter wood; smelting and eel fishing
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Ervin Rafferty, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Elmer Robinson was most renowned fiddler in the region; you had to get your fiddler lined up well ahead of the wedding; there was a particular shortage of fiddlers after WWII when everyone wanted to marry at once; picking up Robinson with a sleigh in the winter
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Ervin Rafferty, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:His family came from Ireland and settled in a cabin on the Foxley River
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Ervin Rafferty, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:House parties started to decline after the war; the mood of the younger people was different after the war
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories