Winters, Ellen – 2006

Interview by Peter Webb. Interview date: 11-12-2006

Part 1 of 2
TimeTopic
00:00Ellen Birth/Family History
07:00 Military 1942 Aviation Mechanics School
09:00 Work History
13:00 Marriage/Life
21:15 Parent History / Early Schooling
28:40 “Redskin Indians”/Tin Pan Alley (Skin Alley) now Canal St.
30:30 School
33:25 Growing Up / Friends
36:30 Town Hall Stage and Plays
38:43 Bell Ringing July 4th, wagons and outhouses moved about town
40:25 Ice House Fire / Harvest / Boarding
44:50 Ice Train-50 cars crossing Mason Rd. / Station
46:50 Ice Fire / Metro Ice Set Blaze / Scenic Road around Lake “Scam”
50:45 Ben (Fred?) Farnsworth
52:00 Cranberry Bog
55:00 Growing up / Cooking
56:44 Meetinghouse Fire
57:10 Businesses: Bell Manufacturer, Local Power Plant, AA Hall (Village Store) Tucker and Stiles, Whitcomb
1:00:00 Searles House / Barbershop / Greasy Sink
1:02:00 Ice Harvest Workers
1:03:30 Important Families / Personalities
1:06:05 Brookline was “dry”
1:07:30 Grandfather Farwell
1:10:30 Gender Appropriateness
1:12:35 Joe Gould – Raspberries
1:14:00 Peter Webb HouseMason Rd.
1:16:45 Alfie Hall / Red and White Store (now Village Store)
1:19:15 Grange
1:20:45 Fires – House/Forest
1:22:45 Grandfather’s Stories – Person dies of Starvation (HG Shattuck?)
1:24:10 Nye Child Dies of Accidental Gunshot
1:26:30 Flood of 1927 / 1938 Hurricane
Part 2 of 2
TimeTopic
01:10 Austin Boys
02:10 Joining Navy, Crew ChiefAviation Mechanic
08:10 “Damn Yankee” comment
09:15 Memories of Brookline Picking Cranberries / O.D. Fessenden
11:40 Wintering Machine (Cranberries)
12:35 Soft Cranberry – Grandfather’s nose
13:55 Grandfather’s History
15:50 State Legislature
16:50 Indian Remains discovered at Ice House building site
20:45 Student Yearbook Harold C. Bales, first Superintendent of area Schools
22:40 Brookline Dairies
25:45 Hard work as Child / Vegetable Cellar
28:20 School Cancelled – Too Cold
30:20 Wood Stove / “Power Stove”
31:40 Neighbors / Animals and Hunting
34:15 Midwife
37:00 Frank Farwell Remembrance
39:25 “I’ve seen a lot of things” Soap Stone Heaters / Car Robes
41:20 Water Source at Childhood House / Camps
44:00 Water Testing
46:30 Skunk Story
49:20 Father / Mother / Ancestors’ Early History
53:10 Birthday Party for Great, Great Grandfather Captured by English and Sold for 5 cents
55:10 School / Sunday School Teacher Marion Stiles
57:15 Raising Church to build First Floor below
58:00 School Houses
59:25 Matthews Family / Burning House
1:03:10 Garden / Canning
1:04:30 Depression
1:06:10 Cox’s Farm / Fire
1:08:50 Town Fires / Fire Dept. Dances upstairs at Daniels Academy
1:10:45 Olde Home Days
1:12:58 Steeple Repairs / Paint Town Hall
1:14:18 Minstrel Shows (Black Face) / Plays
1:16:40 Grange Information
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