... I mean there are people in- down at Cobsy's-Gardens, I know you have to convince some of the people that- you-know they think because they're not paying their own way, that somebody pays for it, so you're going to get two- two pieces of pie for supper. If- you got what two pieces, I can have two.

Speaker: We sent her out to the garden to bring in some potatoes for supper. Next thing we heard her shouting, "Where's the potatoes?" Well I said, "You're standing on them." She'd no idea what potatoes- Speaker 2: They come in a bag right? Speaker: I had to go out and pull them and show her what potatoes were.

Speaker 2: Died walking down the road of old age. Speaker: Yeah. Interviewer: Yeah. Isn't that something? Speaker: A full stomach. He'd been to Jane and Eddie's for supper. Speaker 2: Yeah.

Speaker: When I was young and we didn't- in the summer you didn't have- could keep meat. And dad would say to- to old Timmy, "Take Beatrice and go down to the lake. Get some meat for supper." I remember catching pike like that. Speaker 2: Oh, you always got pike.

... we ah put the cream in a tub out there and pumped cold water just to cool it down, eh? And ah, so that's ah- get the milking done, put the cows out and chores done, then we in and Mom would be getting supper, if we didn't have it before. Sometimes we ate before we done the chores, but- and ah, my father, ah, if he were home, we might have supper before, but he didn't- chores wasn't his thing.

So you had to go out and get that six-quart basket of potatoes, six-quart basket of beans, a bunch of carrots, you-know it's- and then you got dinner ready and did the dishes, and then you could go play 'til it was time to get something for supper.

Interviewer: Okay. And now were there big square-dances in the harvest in October- t-- in September, October? Harvest dances? Speaker: No, there was more suppers at the church. (both laugh)

Speaker: Because, ah, they had to have something. Just a second, I'll be right with you. I have to think of supper in the morning. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: My husband thinks I'm mental, but- well I said, "Well if you didn't think of supper in the morning- Interviewer: You wouldn't have anything on t-- pl-- table at night!

Interviewer: What about fishing, did you go fishing? Speaker: No, no we um- we um, dad was always, I think too busy on the farm and because he was milking and- and in those days, when we're growing up, he would eat supper first and then milk the cows after. When I started farming with him ah, full-time in nineteen-seventy-five, ah, then we switched and we would have finished, milked the cows and then we were done for the day, have supper and then we were done for the day. So your evenings were free.

Anyway, she took such a liking to us, we were there an hour. She invited us for a stay for supper, and we had drinks and coffee, and ah and wonderful ah-

Her mother is still living and she's ninety-two and she lives in a house in Manilla. We're taking her our tonight for supper 'cause she was ninety-two yesterday. So I- I've had a great life ah.

... I remember dad buying fish at the door from some men that I knew and he knew and ah, every winter they'd come knocking on the door about supper-time and they had white fish and herring and some trout but ah, mother didn't like the trout too well so we- and I didn't. White fish and herring were really nice fish.

And then was usually a roast for supper on a Sunday night. And then there was leftovers Monday and maybe Tuesday. And then that was baloney and wieners and sausages after that. Until next Sunday when you got a decent meal again, or a good meal or a good feed. There was never any shortage of food.

Interviewer: So what did you guys do for fun? Speaker: Fun? After supper, I'd go hunting groundhogs.

Um, ah, and then New-Year's we'd have a big New-Year's supper at my ah, aunt and uncle's.

Speaker 2: Yeah. But it was called a brick. (laughs) Speaker: Yeah, yeah. Of ice cream and- so that was- you-know, for supper that night, they'd, you-know, open it and cut it in slices and we each got our little slice of ice cream.

So we got back to the inn and had poached salmon or something like that for supper and it was really good. And Ethan was with us. Ethan-MacDougall.

Speaker: Took the train every day. W-- Trai- well there was lots of trains going back and forth. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: So they could- they would be down there and- in time to get to school in the morning and- and they'd be back here you-know by after supper. Interviewer: There were a lot of trains.

Speaker: We talked on the phone a little bit. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: And then ah and when I- I said well we'll- we'll go out for supper. And we went to the Admiral-Inn didn't we?

Um, I have certainly seen a lot of changes in- in lifestyle. Um technology is taking over, and, ah, when we were on the farm, we always had meals as breakfast, dinner, and supper, because you worked your breakfast off, you needed a big dinner, and you worked your dinner off and you had your big supper, and today it's breakfast, lunch and dinner-