Interviewer: Did you ever go on a church picnic? Speaker: Yes, every year they had a Sunday-school or church picnic, every year. But the big event in Cushing was the winter one called the Tea meeting and that was something we all looked forward to. It was a great event because people came from many miles around even came from Montreal, not only one or two to entertain but to attend the supper. Interviewer: What would they do at a Tea-meeting? Speaker: Well, first of all they would have a grand supper.

Interviewer: Ah what kind of work would the Lady's-Aid do? Speaker: Oh they had all kinds of ah um- they used to had bazaars and tea meetings and-all-that-kind-of-thing.

Apart from- now in the church we had, ah, every fall, they called it the tea meeting but it- it was really just, ah- we, ah- like, every family would take a basket. And, ah, they'd go and they'd go to this hall or church hall and, ah, the- the mothers would make a dinner and everybody went.

Speaker: They called it the tea meeting. And that- Interviewer: Why do they call it tea? Speaker: We had that every fall. Interviewer: Why did they call it a tea meeting if you- if your mothers made dinners? Speaker: Well, ah, I don't know why they called it the tea meeting. Interviewer 2: 'Cause the- 'cause the next meal is your tea isn't it? Speaker: Mm-hm. Interviewer 2: (laughs)

Speaker: But, no, ah, it was the tea meeting and we all went and- and we would go, like, for supper. And then they'd have a program after that. Interviewer: Oh, I see. Speaker: A Christmas program. And it was always in the fall. But when- you-know, when- and it wasn't a tea. It wasn't a meal like what you have now. We- we would have baked bean and- and potatoes and- and you never heard of a solid or-anything-like-that, you had pickles or Jell-O, you-know, that's a way back.