Speaker: You're in luck; I could take you for a ride. Interviewer: (Laughs) Interviewer 2: (Laughs) Interviewer: So I- that means that Bikers'- you must really enjoy Bikers-Reunion. Speaker: Yeah, I enjoy Bikers-Reunion. Yeah and ah, I enjoy riding the bike. Yesterday um, as far as riding the bike is concerned, I've been on some pretty big trips.

Speaker: So your Bikers-Reunion in New-Liskeard has five, six, eight-thousand bikes. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: The biker party in Sturgis has over seven-hundred-thousand bikes. Interviewer 2: Oh my God. Interviewer: No. Speaker: And it's the same size town, so.

I- I-think that the Bikers-Reunion will be a success, not just because of the people that work at it and it's a good idea and it's a great place, but you-know it's a good day's ride from just about anywhere in the province.

The I-P-M was quite large, like the biggest thing here, other than Bikers-Reunion, I'm sure you've seen the signs.

Speaker: And they bring like roses and care packages to each of the patients like (inc) like bikers cry, like these people you never expect and they just like start bawling, like it's a really emotional- 'cause what Bikers-Reunion is all about, is battling cancer. Interviewer: Oh okay. Speaker: Because I guess Brian lost his mother and brother to cancer, not sure, to- Interviewer: Is Brian the (inc)? Speaker: Yeah, the- who started it, Brian-Pine.

Interviewer: Do you feel like our community isn't as close as it used to be? Speaker: Well I think that here, the community's really good. You-know, they- they pull together and- and it's really nice. They certainly um a lot of volunteers especially for the Bikers-Reunion you-know? Interviewer: Yeah, mm-hm. Speaker: Yes, they ah don't have trouble getting people to volunteer.

SPeaker: But ah anyway, yeah the Bikers-Reunion so we haven't really taken part in it. We can- Interviewer: (inc). Speaker: Walk better when it first started and we would walk down and- and go around and actually he- Interviewer: I worked out of the (inc). Speaker: Yes you did, uh-huh.

Interviewer: So do you like Summer-Fest then? Speaker: Um, I found as a kid, I liked it a lot more but it's- it's kind-of a fun event now, I guess when you're sixteen, there's the Bikers-Reunion too, right? Is that part of Summers-Fest? Interviewer 2: Yeah. Speaker: Summer-Fest (laughs). I- I-mean- like, that's pretty fun. They normally have cool things like that guy who was flying.

Speaker: Or keep that trend going, actually staying outside for the whole summer when there are these stupid bikes outside making noise 'til like three-A-M. Interviewer: Aw. Speaker: Also what annoys me about it is that the first year that they had it, it was still called Bikers-Reunion. These people haven't met before like that's not a r-- Interviewer 2: (Laughs). Interviewer: (Laughs). Speaker: They should have had a better name for it (laughs) but anyways- Interviewer: (Laughs) "These people haven't met before."

Interviewer: Well Bonnie you've got great stories and I've- and I thank you very much for sharing time. Speaker: I'd love to know what you're- what your researchers going to do with all this bilge.

We went to Halifax twice but first year we were billeted, second year we got a classroom to stay in as a team.

We went to play there and ah, I was billeted with this family. She had ah- her name was Miranda-Lame. And she was Finnish and she had spotted my name, you-know in the- in- in the um- in the billet list so ah- so she picked me to ah- to ah stay with them and so we became lifelong friends and she's passed away and her husband was also in the air-force and ah he was killed.

And ah, as most- well, l-- most of the kids our age, the parents were- dad had been in the war. And he never spoke of it. Never. Um, other than- now, he kept in touch with family he had been billeted with.

Speaker: Of course now there would be the- what they called the reaper, that came in before the- that was before the minder. Interviewer: Uh-huh. Speaker: Yeah, that was before the binder. That didn't tie the- that didn't tie the grain, that cut it and I put the grain off in bundles, but then you had to go around and tie that by hand.

And farm work was practically all done by hand pretty much. Hay was- well, we had a horse ring but you had to coil it and- that was just a- when I was a boy the, ah- that was just about the time that the mowing machines and the grain-binder came into it. The re-- up to that time it had, ah- it had been a cradle. (laughs)

Stook it up. Now, of course, they have- then next come the reaper. Ah, they just cut- cut it and laid it in bundles but they didn't tie it. Then came the binder and they tied it. Then came the binder with the sheaf-carrier and they carried the sheaves into, ah, six and dropped them off for a stook.

He done practically anything. If you broke something on, ah, a ladder, you broke something on your binder, broke something on your mower, ah, had to get, ah- oh, anything made out of iron, you'd go and- and take it. Even a crank for, ah, turn a grindstone, they'd make it, you-know? Piece of iron. Buy the iron, make the stuff.

And (inc). And the grain, we used to take the binder, cut it and put it into sheaves, stook it out in the field and then go along. Maybe, well (inc) years, the stook thrashed, there was a bunch come with the teams on the wagons, you-know, and tractor had been at the mill here, threshing-mill, they threshed it.

Speaker: The binders would show- throw the sheaves out. Interviewer: Right. Speaker: Yes and then we'd pick them up and put them- I think it was pretty much twelve sheaves to a bundle. Mm-hm.

Interviewer: Mm-hm. Then after the grain grew and was ready to cut, what piece of equipment cut it? Speaker: Used a binder. Interviewer: What did a binder do? Speaker: Well a binder cut the grain and uh, put it out in stooks, tied it with uh, binder twine- Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: And then (inc) it out in a row- in rows, you-know?