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00:00:03 - Introduction: background information on St. Michael's Church at Misere.

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00:01:04 - Why St. Michael's Church was built in its location - the land was donated.

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00:02:12 - In recent years there were only about 30 families who attended St. Michael's.

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00:02:30 - The relationship between St. Michael's and St. Hubert's at Rosiere.

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00:03:23 - Names of the priests who served St. Hubert's and St. Michael's. Sometimes a priest from St. Norbert Abbey in DePere would come out to Misere to say mass.

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00:04:33 - Description of the services at Misere. She and some others attended whichever church had mass at the most convenient times, but some people would only attend St. Michael's.

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00:05:44 - How the church looked in her youth (St. Michael's).

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00:06:57 - Misere had a choir - Louis Bahrain sang there for many years.

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00:07:37 - Services were discontinued about 3 years ago.

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00:08:12 - Her growing up years in Rosiere at the corner of County highways C and X in a big stone house (which still stands).

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00:09:31 - Description of the LeGrave family farm - started by Mrs. LeMense's grandfather (Alexis LeGrave). Her father and uncles all lived with their families on the home farm until they paid for seperate farms for each one.

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00:10:42 - The advent of electricity on the farm.

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00:12:40 - Washing clothes before electricity.

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00:14:18 - Indoor plumbing.

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00:14:44 - Her father's occupations after selling the farm.

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00:16:24 - Inheritance practices - especially the "bond of support" as a means of transferring property.

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00:19:12 - Childbirth practices - there was a doctor in her family. Therefore, he always attended the births, which took place at home. All of her children were born in hospitals, however.

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00:20:32 - Women's work on the farm - since her family had no boys, the girls had to do all of the work normally done by boys.

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00:23:56 - Education for girls - high school was considered very advanced for a girl. All of the girls in her family (four of them) attended the Door-Kewaunee Normal School in Algoma and boarded there. At that time the teaching course was only one year.

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00:26:51 - Procedure for the care of unmarried adults and the elderly.

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00:28:46 - Hope chests and quilting among the women.

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00:30:04 - Walloon language - description of her childhood home in Walloon.

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