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00:00:03 - Introduction: This is an interview with Mrs. Macaux recorded in her home on Co. N. She speaks here of fishing in that area, especially during the time of her childhood (she was born in 1897).

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00:00:36 - Mentions those who went to Belgium this year with the Belgian-American Club.

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00:01:00 - Father fished both summer and winter. Caught herring in winter, some days as much as a ton. Loads of fish hauled to Green Bay--got 1/2 [cent] per lb.

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00:02:19 - Froze fish in big shed. Next day hauled to Green Bay.

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00:03:22 - Summer; sold fish to a boat that came by.

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00:03:38 - She would go with her father and watch them scoop up the fish.

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00:04:04 - Fishing was their main occupation; farming subsistence only. 4-5 cows, 8 children in family.

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00:04:50 - Family's role. Father went out with his two brothers. Her mother never went out on the ice.

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00:05:59 - Grandmother and grandfather. Grandfather Renard, a shoemaker, brought leather on his back from Green Bay. Her grandmother had Indians help her out while he was gone, hunting and bringing in wood. Sometimes 7-8 Indians slept in her house.

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00:08:37 - Peddlers. Sold many fish to them; they came to the bay to pick them up.

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00:09:15 - All evening was spent turning fish to freeze them; preparing to go to Green Bay in sleigh.

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00:09:40 - "When the fish went away." By the time her only brother would've fished there weren't enough left.

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00:10:24 - Hook-and-line fishing. Incident with her niece.

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00:11:09 - Comments on how they are not stocking fish today.

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00:11:47 - Cooking fish. Clean, turn in flour, fry in grease. Some days 14-15 strangers in home; came for loads of fish from Rosiere, Lincoln, Tonet, Green Bay. Didn't pay for these meals.

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00:13:02 - Cooking fish in vinegar. Layer of onions, pepper and salt, mustard, and then fish. Cooked in oven.

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00:13:36 - Cleaning fish; who did it depended on how much time they had.

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00:14:13 - Mother's chores; milking, feeding pigs and chickens. Making butter.

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00:15:02 - Attitudes toward husband's going out on ice. He fished summers and winters with a neighbor; "No use to get worried."

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00:16:16 - John Peltier, the man her husband worked for, was a non-Belgian. One winter Mr. Macaux fished with her (his wife's) father.

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00:16:51 - Knows "Walloon the best."

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00:17:26 - Comments on how they get along well with all their neighbors.

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