Community life

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practices in effect on most wood lots. Also, three wetlands have been re-established as habitats for wildlife in conjunction with Ducks Unlimited. Four of the original settler’s farms are still being farmed today by direct descendants.

* A chain is sixty six feet.

’3 Lillian Pinkney (daughter ofMaria and Johnny Angus MacDougall) remembers that her father used a rowboat to fish lobster, mackerel and herring. He would bring his catch up to the house in a horse drawn cart. The biggest catch was herring. When he caught more than they could use, he would phone the neighbors and offer to give them some of the fish. Sometimes he even cleaned the fish if they did not like to. She also says there was nothing wasted when an animal was butchered — potted meat was made from the head of the cow and she remembers something called tripe which her father would bury in a snowbank (she doesn't know for how long) and then cut up into small pieces to fry. When her father would butcher a pig, he would put the bladder behind the stove to dry. He would then fill it

with air, tie offthe end and the children would use it as a ball.

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