Full audio file. NOTES: See also Tape by Norma Wery. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 1 - Introduction. [never recorded] Tape 1, Side 1, Part 2 - The time periods Mr. Wery and his wife spent on the farm. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 3 - Their inheritance of the farm. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 4 - History of farms ownership. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 5 - House. Built prior to Tureur (Mrs. Wery's family's) ownership. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 6 - Summer kitchen, shed and garage put up by her father. Use of summer kitchen; once an outdoor oven on property. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 7 - Gardens and orchards. Strawberries, potatoes, etc. on east side of house. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 8 - Hay seeded on swamp on property. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 9 - Garage and woodshed. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 10 - Speaking "Belgian" on the farm. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 11 - Basement--entrance added after their marriage. Had earthen floor. Making beer and moonshine on farm. Made in summer kitchen, stored in basement. "Mash" kept upstairs in house. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 12 - Pigpen. Always same use; pigs in chicken coop in winter. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 13 - Cattle's grazing area across road to south of house. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 14 - River in swamp. Fished some brook trout, suckers, pickerel. Grandfather had smokehouse for herring and chubs bought in Algoma. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 15 - House trailer put up in 1970. He lived in it first with his wife, while her mother stayed in the house. His daughter now lives in trailer, and they've moved back into house. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 16 - Barns over 85 years old. Doorways on eastern side where cows come out. Describes use of barn interior. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 17 - Milk house. Situation difficult today with no bulk tank. Once had 17 cows, now have 12 (built in 1973). Tape 1, Side 1, Part 18 - First electricity came "late." Had light plant in house basement; describes. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 19 - Barn on east side. Lean-to on southern end of barn for young stock. Tape 1, Side 2, Part 1 - Lean-to next to threshing floor; now pig in there. Mr. Wery's attitudes toward work. Tape 1, Side 2, Part 2 - Threshing floor. Tape 1, Side 2, Part 3 - Machine shed. Tape 1, Side 2, Part 4 - Brooding house. Market eggs to resorts. How resorts have affected their area. Tape 1, Side 2, Part 5 - Granary. Feels once was house. Tape 1, Side 2, Part 6 - Area not burned by Peshtigo Fire. Tape 1, Side 2, Part 7 - Chicken coop. Once many chickens raised on farm. Now also pigpen. Once marketed at Fontaine's store on Co. N. one mile south. Tape 1, Side 2, Part 8 - Well once in front of house water from it used in house and summer kitchen. Tape 1, Side 2, Part 9 - End.
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