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File: swensonamy06-oh-donaghschoolprogram_m.mp3
Speakers:
AS – Amy Swenson
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
AS: The Donagh School is a new school, it's only six years old. The Donagh school parents wanted – They fundraised for a playground; they got the playground in and they wanted to
File: swensonamy06-oh-gettingestablished_M.mp3
Speakers:
AS – Amy Swenson
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
KP: So you moved here in
AS: 1998.
KP: So how did you get established, teaching?
AS: I put notices up at the malls,
File: trainorcecil06-oh-churchpicnics_M.mp3
Speakers:
CT – Cecil Trainor
KP: Tell me about the church picnics
CT: There'd be a picnic at the church. They'd have bag races and they'd have bingos and they'd have wheel of fortune and they'd set out
arsenaultrobert06-oh-acadiansyncopation_M.wav
Speakers:
RA – Robert Arsenault
KP – Ken Perlman
RA: What the basic pattern is, it's what I call the rock and roll rhythm. A rocking rhythm needs two beats to rock. You need two beats to rock. Like it's a dance rhythm. So you need
File: macdougallherb06-oh-firstfiddleandbow_M.mp3
Speakers:
HM - Herb MacDougall
HM: My Dad [George MacDougall] used to play for dances, before I was born. I found the violin up in the attic; my parents would say I was an inquisitive type and tinkering all the time at something
File: smithmary06-oh-musichome_M.mp3
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
File: doironpeter-oh-pcfiddlers_M.mp3
Speakers:
PD - Peter Doiron
KP Curator Ken Perlman
KP: Were you in on the Prince County Fiddlers right from the beginning?
PD Prince County, yes. We had out little meeting in a barber shop here when we first decided to join
File: arsenaultrobert-oh-familyencouragement_M.mp3
Speakers:
RA – Robert Arsenault
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
RA: The type of encouragement there is now from parents -- to give their kids everything and to become super-achievers is a nonexistent thing in Acadian
File: arsenaultlouise-oh-gettingstarted_M.wav
Speakers-
LA: Louise Arsenault
KP: Curator Ken Perlman
LA: I was brought up in Mt. Carmel and my parents live in Mt. Carmel. I started playing the violin when I was 7 years old and my father also plays the violin and my
File: raffertyervin06-oh-changesafterwar_M.mp3
Speakers:
ER – Ervan Rafferty
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
KP - When did the house parties and square dances such begin to decline in this area?
ER: I guess probably after the war, maybe shortly after
File: trainorcecil06-oh-cardplayingforhorses_M.mp3
Speakers:
CT – Cecil Trainor
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
CT: Then they used to have card playing for horses. Some fellow in the fall of the year would have an old horse that wouldn't be worth nothin', so he'd card play him. So I'
File: mcquaidjenny-oh-onermschools_M.mp3
Speakers
JM — Jenny O'Hanley McQuaid
KP — Curator Ken Perlman
KP: So in a way, the old school in Monticello and perhaps in other parts of the Island was a community building as well
File: chappellella06-oh-districtschools_M.mp3
Speakers:
EC – Ella Thomson Chappell
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
KP: Tell me about the schools that you went to.
EC: Well the way it was they had to put the fire on in the morning. So somebody had to go early and
File: chaissonjj06-oh-learning_composingtunes_M.mp3
Speakers:
JC – JJ Chaisson
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
KP: Do you have a strategy for when you compose?
JC: A couple of different ways. I've woken up before with a tune just in my head, and you play it, you
File: brucestanley-oh-jigging_M.mp3
Speakers:
B – Stanley Bruce
AO –Attwood O'Connor
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
My oldest daughter [says] "Dad, you're forever whistling a tune or singing something . Why?" You don't even know you're doing it.