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00:00:02 - Products from farm - had small farm so brother became auto mechanic.

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00:01:44 - Sold milk and Mr. Ausloos did carpentry work on the side.

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00:02:54 - Mother's father helped with farm after father's death.

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00:03:30 - Children's work on the farm.

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00:04:01 - Field work, haying.

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00:04:46 - Electricity - impact on farm.

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00:05:40 - Layout of farm.

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00:06:48 - Had to keep great-grandmother one week after she died because of blizzard (winter burial).

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00:08:42 - Funeral services and wakes.

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00:09:58 - Funerals in Belgium different. Reactions of Belgian visitors to mausoleums and funeral practices.

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00:12:08 - Churches and cathedrals in Belgium purely for tourists.

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00:13:49 - Three parties in Belgium: Christian Democrats, Socialist Labor and Independents.

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00:15:42 - Men did not attend the church service at a funeral in Belgium.

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00:16:54 - When local Green Bay men went to Belgium they attended many churches.

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00:17:13 - Belgian churches for tourists.

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00:17:53 - Belgians who came to United States last summer say there isn't much church-going in Belgium.

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00:19:31 - Passing land from father to children, problems with lawyers and the legal agreements.

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00:22:07 - Farmers often got money by selling land to the county for roads.

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00:23:00 - Children were given a share of money from parents to start own farms.

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00:24:00 - Parents usually stayed on the farm but sometimes went to the city.

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00:24:39 - Wooden shoes on the farm and in school. 40 cents a pair 50 years ago from Neater DeBeck.

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00:26:42 - Few farmers had hired hands.

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00:26:54 - Mr. Ausloos attended a one room school house and later vocational school for carpentry.

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00:27:28 - Attended Mt. May School near New Franken.

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00:27:42 - Teachers were Miss Evrats, Donavon and Nora Bodart.

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00:28:50 - He already spoke English when he started school.

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00:29:23 - Grandmother only spoke Walloon (he thinks it's similar to German).

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00:29:47 - Punished for speaking Walloon in school.

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00:30:07 - Teaching a little girl to speak English.

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