TRANSCRIPT

MW
"I was three, he started working for Thurston Flavelle. And at that time, he was working in the dry kilns, um, and they would push the big load of lumber into a dry kiln and and then move it on and the planer mill and uh I went down and helped! Oh I really thought I helped [laughs] push those loads of lumber. And um, my brother um... became a planer man, and then he went on and he was in charge of him. It's kind of a funny thing there, because one day one of the big machines fell on his hand, and he said 'Oh dear God' and the rest of the men around made fun of him, so then he showed them he had different vocabulary [laughs]. And, um, and then dad worked there until he retired but after he retired they asked him to come back as a watchman. And so he worked as a watchman there um, I don't know, it seems to me about until they closed down!"

Interviewer:
"What was your father's original job at the mill, when he first started? What did he do?"

MW:
"In the mill?"

Interviewer:
"Mmhm."

MW:
"Oh, working in the planer - in the dry kiln."