He bought all my food, paid ah- give me my lunch and- and we usually always had supper before we come home too. And ah he lived in Fenelon-Falls but his farm was right out where I live now. On the farm that I live now.

Speaker: Used to hav-- yup, Strawberry-Suppers, Foul-Suppers and they're still on, but there's a lot of things that we don't do anymore. Interviewer: What's a Strawberry-Supper? Speaker: Well United-Church puts a Strawberry-Supper on and it is um, it's a hot and cold buffet. Um, like twelve-bucks I think it is- it'll cost yeah.

And they have a lot of strawberries and whipped-cream and strawberry-shortcake and-all-that for dessert so and then the Anglican-Church they have a- a foul-supper which is turkey and all the trimmings and the- you'll have to get Doug to bring you up here these times you-know!

... the United is a hundred and ten. The- each year they ha-- the United-Church celebrated they're hundred-and-ten years in Strawberry-Supper in the end of June and the Anglican-Church on the twenty-fourth of May have an anniversary dinner, a supper and the Anglican-Church has a turkey dinner on Thanksgiving Sunday.

It was like split shift so you would work the morning you'd have a few hours off and the afternoon you'd have to come back for supper. So my mom and dad were really good about running me to work and running me back and um.

I just find families stay closer together than in the city. And we often have like Sunday suppers an-- I don't know if that's something that they do elsewhere or not but we often have um with Moe's side of the family Sunday night we always go to somebody's house for supper and we just take turns.

Yeah I usually see my parents usually every night and um, my mom's- as you-know she's a big family women so we usually have supper once a week or- you-know jut get together and hangout. Usually every weekend.

... a lot of people have retired to the village and ah I don't know a lot of people. I go back for anything you-know any of the church suppers I go back for and ah- and-stuff-like-that but there's a lot of strange faces. Yes.

... I was supposed to stay home- and- and wait for my mother to get home 'cause she was- she was working so- or start supper or-something you-know. Oh gosh yeah. So, I didn't go too far out that time like you-know but that was it.

Interviewer: It might be fun! Okay um, kind-of on like a different topic, like if you could you-know let's say you're famous now and you're in your band and you tour anywhere or travel anywhere, where would you go? Speaker: I guess to The-States. Interviewer: Why? Like where would you wanna go in The-States and why? Speaker: Um, I guess like New-York 'cause it's the most people. I think it would be fun to play in a- front of a lot of people.

Interviewer: Like when it- if you- you-know when you're this big rock-star, what do you think is gonna- your life is gonna be like- like what do you wanna do with it. Speaker: I don't know. Um, I guess I'd just move to the States 'cause it's the thing to do and I-don't-know, I'd try and not be a drunk drug addict.

Yeah. Um my one friend that I lived with for all four years is my friend that went to the States because there wasn't a lot of jobs up here when we graduated so she's in North-Carolina.

Ah well my mother was from here. She lived off of one-twenty-one over there on a farm and my dad lived in- well origina-- he was born in Burnt-River but he lived in Kinmount and here too. And then they went to The-States and he worked in um, I think it was General-Electric over there and then ah I was born and then they come back here.

... ah my mom came home for them to be born in Canada and ah- and then ah but she didn't come home when I was born. So that's how come I was born in The-States. Yeah.

Interviewer: Have you ever noticed um- one of the things we're- we're looking at is kind-of like Burnt-River slang maybe, or terms that you've only heard here or that people use in town? Speaker: No I don't think so, but when I phone my cousin in The-States ah- they cou-- they said, "Well ah- we can tell- we know who it is because ah by the- the way I talk."

But yeah mom and- um my- like our grandmother came actually from the States. She moved here when she was three or five or-

Yeah, so he's like owner, operator so he kind-of works. If he wants to take a month off, he takes a month off. He um, he works down in The-States so I-mean he isn't- he's not (inc) where he goes to do that and then my mom works- has just done factory work out of Lindsay.

Speaker: Yup, they're all nice little towns. But, were just back in the sticks and quiet. Interviewer: Yeah it's nice though. I'm liking it. Speaker: I know and the first time my aunt come over from England…

Speaker: So, we tried to severance the lot and ah- back in them days to get farmland severanced off a farm was almost impossible. Interviewer: Why was that not allowed? Speaker: Because the government wouldn't- wouldn't- didn't want productive farmland to go to housing.

Like why- why wait 'til- 'til the kids are half way through high-school and then another three or four years they're gone away to college. Do it now while they're young, ah then the have the benefit of having a bigger house you-know when they're growing up.