Ah, well like there's about four, five of us that were all like there at the time, and I remember like trash-and-treasure. We'd go around and like collect stuff every year and we'd have like this little kind of place in the- like there's a little gully by our house and we collected it there (laughs).

Speaker: And we look and we can hear like these little claws like on the road and we like look over and there's this bear standing there on the road and were like in the middle of our lot, so we just kind of like crept into the corner of like- our two houses are really close, so we crept into the corner of his and it's still looking at us and we just jumped the fence, like (laughs)- Interviewer: You did? Speaker: Yeah we were sitting on the fence and we called our parents and yeah. And then my dad came out and he was just watching it for a bit and all the neighbours were just watching it and then it just ran back into the gully.

Speaker: Hide-and-Seek, we used to have massive Hide-and-Seek games- Interviewer: Really? Speaker: 'Cause we got a little gully by our house and we'd invite like fifteen, twenty people over and play Hide-and-Seek...

Speaker: Well we played ball and then when ah- we used to just (inc) made up our own games. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: (inc) There used to be a little gully there.

Speaker: And the coach (clears throat) is running the guys and they're doing all their stuff. And ah they hear the sirens and he looks over shoulder and here comes this guy gumbooting it. Interviewer: (Gasps) Speaker: In his handcuffs up through the field (laughs).

And so ah we helped her and then- then later on they- they ah made it sixteen. ... My youngest sister, she- she went. She was older when (inc) went ah, to- to ah high-school. ... So we kind-of got gypped there. ... (Laughs) Well things were different in those days, eh?

And I- I said "I'll give you twelve-five." Wouldn't go for it. I finally got him down to fourteen. Fourteen cash. 'Til the day he died, he never forgot that. ... I gypped him down a thousand dollars.

No, we were- I was in grade ten and I spent time away from home and-things. And you-know it was a time when- they followed us across Canada with ham radios. There were no cell phones or-anything-like-that. And even to call home was difficult because it cost money you-know long distance was expensive and there was pay-phones and-things-like-that.

Interviewer: And the cops stayed in the cafe was because Dawson. Speaker: They brought him into another room I think and sat down. Like, were talking to him about it and-st-- Interviewer: He was drunk right? ... Speaker: Oh he was hammered.

like little beehives and then when they cured after a week or so and the s-- the weather was right, then we'd have to load it onto a a hay wagon again pulled by horses um and take it all the way to the barn and unload it all by hay forks and pulleys and horses and all that. Interviewer: Now, would that all would be loose, right? Speaker: All loose yeah.

Speaker: And then we would take the load of loose hay to the barn and then would be a ah a big hay-fork (inc) put in with the load of hay and ah you would draw it up on the track end of the barn and then you would spread it out and trap it and-so-forth so the- and then- so that was ah first of all, then we went with-

And they um were playing- I don't know h-- what they were doing. We had an old um- what the heck is it called? Like um, used to- like a hayfork. Um, i-- it was hanging in the barn for whatever reason, we never u-- we didn't use it.

Which it really isn't because there's so much more like land on top of us (laughs). Um, and they also see it as a really big hick town. Not a big hick town but it's- it's very hick because the population's like just over a thousand. (laughs) Um, but yeah. But I don't think there's really anything that truly defines this town for me anyway. Yeah. It's just where I come from, that's all (laughs).

"Oh my God, you live far." So they view it as like s-- really, really north- ... Which it really isn't because there's so much more like land on top of us (laughs). Um, and they also see it as a really big hick town. Not a big hick town but it's- it's very hick because the population's like just over a thousand. (laughs) Um, but yeah. But I don't think there's really anything that truly defines this town for me anyway. Yeah. It's just where I come from, that's all (laughs).

And I think ah we were the- I-- I'm going to take credit for it because we were sitting in the- the- the um kitchen, we'd put a barbeque on for us. They do a big hip- hip of beef on a nice afternoon and- and we'd eat outside and the girls would be over and we'd sit in the quad and um a bunch of us were sitting on the steps that face the quad.

...you-know we played horsing. The- the Williams' had a- you-know w-- Larry-Williams, he lived at- anyway, they lived in North-Cobalt and he got his cattle ah- or horses it was he got from out west and they come in a box cars and we lived right by the- w-- one side of the railroad track and the station's on the other side of it.

Interviewer: So what would you say is your favourite thing about this community? Speaker: About the community. Oh I can't say but my favourite thing is. Oh I-don't-know. There's a new favourite thing about it to be truthful about it. Interviewer: Aw. Speaker: But ah- how do you mean? Ah, from what w-- Interviewer: Something that you like about the commun-- like I'm- we're both leaving for university in the fall.

... I was a child and I was small but I remember walking on snowbanks and almost being able to jump to touch hydro - wires, you-know? Like just there seemed to be so much more snow back then, our winters I remember were I think more- more cold, more brutal but- but maybe it's because I was a child and you-know everything looked bigger.

... Or no, I was cutting another branch and the branch I was sitting on broke off, that's what happened. And then ah. ... Ah, I would literally take off the the climbing gear 'cause I had a hydro belt, the ones they use for climbing telephone poles, ah, had one of those that I was using to mount myself to the tree.

W-- after Floyd and I bought our house on Dymond-Crescent, you could see the back door of the house that my mother and father rented that was next door to my friend's where her mother and her sisters lived. And i-- those things, you-know, the hydro - office, it's now a pizza parlour. Downtown New-Liskeard.