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00:00:02 - Outdoor oven use: built wood fire 'til bricks were white hot, shoveled out ashes, and in went the bread for about an hour. Not every family had an oven, usually just a kitchen type of wood burning range. They use the same long wooden paddle in Belgium baking today.

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00:02:19 - Location of oven on the LeGrave farm.

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00:02:49 - LeGrave's blacksmith shop - its location and use: shoe horses, forging broken tools and machines' parts. Grace used to pump the bellows. Wagon wheels or anything else that broke was fixed on the farm. But, Frank never did any blacksmith work for anyone else.

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00:05:14 - Moving the old blacksmith shop to a new location - where the present blacksmith shop stands today. Two teams of horses didn't pull evenly and caused the stone building to break up. Used those stone blocks to build the present shop.

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00:06:08 - The outdoor oven was built on the end of the original blacksmith shop, so that it was also broken up in the moving process, but wasn't rebuilt, apparently it wasn't being used much at that time.

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00:07:07 - Outdoor oven described in elementary school reader with a section on pioneer life.

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00:07:55 - Crops grown on the farm: wheat, oats, barley, peas, rye, buckwheat, sugar, beets (just for one year, because too much work was involved for the profit which could be made). The beets were taken into Casco and then a sugar refinery in Green Bay also handled the beets back in the 1920s. Potatoes were also grown.

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00:09:36 - Farm acreage - original holdings and later purchases. The first farm which all three brothers ran together until each had saved enough and bought their own farms. Another brother had moved to Michigan.

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00:10:11 - Eighteen people lived in the one house at one point, with two very small bedrooms. The kitchen and living room were large, plus four large bedrooms upstairs. The different families were not separated, but no fighting ever occured.

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00:13:33 - Oldest brother was the boss, he stopped all fights before they started.

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00:13:47 - Frank bought his farm in 1908, he married in 1909, but all the family still lived in the house, too, at first.

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00:15:17 - Differences became apparent between Frank and his brothers. They all started equal, but saved differently: different family sizes.

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00:17:10 - Upcoming Kermis. How Frank helped his wife with cooking, and how that was all she ever thought about.

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00:17:35 - Chickens and eggs sold at Ruben's general merchandise store.

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00:18:15 - Other animals on their farm: sheep; used the wool for stockings, spinning was done by Frank's mother.

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00:19:00 - Dyeing the wool.

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00:19:43 - Previous owners of the house: the builder was Prosper Naze, then Dr. LaFortune.

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00:20:13 - Frank was only seven years old when the LeGraves moved into the stone house, but he can remember the hayrick loaded with their belongings.

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00:20:50 - The older LeGrave house then remained vacant, they used it to warm up when working the fields on colder days.

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00:21:06 - Location of this older house.

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00:21:38 - Logs of this original house are still there, but covered with siding, and much of the rest of the house has been remodeled. All the farm barns were present when the LeGraves moved out.

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00:22:52 - Remodeling of new stone house: kitchen and living room.

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00:23:20 - Interruption.

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00:25:10 - Stone house was cold, so they warmed bricks on the kitchen stove to heat their beds. Also had a wood burner aside from the kitchen range.

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00:26:35 - Growing tobacco: difference between cigarette and chewing tobacco. Curing and chopping.

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