Interview with C. Fraser - May 8th, 2008
I will tell you my first memories it was a beautiful beautiful sunny day and my father was out in the Backlands making hay – (They cut the grass with a scythe and let it dry out and then bale it – when they cut the grass they let it dry on the ground then they roll it all up and they bale it. Anyway my father had left and he went out to make the hay and my mother she took all the children and she decided she was going to bring out lunch or dinner to him. So we got to walk from Meat Cove to the lowlands you know where the lowlands are? It’s a long walk so we come to this big big group of trees which we got to cut through and I’ll never forget it – it was so quiet in there in where the trees were at and on the trees were all these wasp nests hanging and my mother said “Don’t touch, don’t touch them, if you don’t bother them they won’t bother you.
We walked a path right through it and out to the field I swear and that is one of my big memories from there I don’t have many memories from there and then I remember eating with my father and after all the kids went over by a bunch of little trees and we were chasing a little rabbit around the tree a baby rabbit and that is all I remember. Oh yes I remember going back walking back to the house actually it was not a house more like a cabin or something and when she got there the pigs got in the house she didn’t have a broom how she swept her floor was my father would cut the bows off the trees and tie them all up and that was her broom and she was whacking and whacking until she got them all out of the house. The house was really just a shack in the woods – a cabin, I don’t even remember how many bedrooms, I could have only been about three years old then and I remember that.
