And I- and after we got married we lived there four years and then we moved- my mother and dad left and went to Cambridge, and we bought the rest of it. Ah somebody stole it, so that was- that was the end of us. But we still have the pine tubber-- cupboard he- he- he made and my gra-- and my son has it out at the farm there.

Interviewer: How do you pick- pick potato bugs? Speaker: You just, with your fingers, put it in a can and gasoline if you can imagine (laughs). Their end was not- or you- if you found the eggs then of course you were- that was much better. Interviewer: Okay, how do you find those? Speaker: Well you flip up the leaf and- and they're orange- little orange pinhead.

First little while, I was a pipsqueak.

Well you're not going to let a little pi-- pipsqueak like that keep you from getting your education.

And, ah, "He was full of piss-and-vinegar!" … I haven't heard that one for- well, it's all right. That's not a bad word.

Ah we would go to parties ah so people’s parents would go away for the weekend and then they’d throw a big party or there used to be, what- what they’re called around here, is a pit party, where it's an actual pit, and maybe it’s a gravel pit or-something and someone has a party there.

Ah we would go to parties ah so people's parents would go away for the weekend and then they'd throw a big party or there used to be, what- what they're called around here, is a pit party, where it's an actual pit, and maybe it's a gravel pit or-something and someone has a party there. Ah we would go rockin'-bowing, where they have it in Peterborough they turn down all the lights, and there was a disco ball ...

Speaker: Like we would all kind of go to someone's house and hang out or we used to have pit parties I guess. Interviewer: What are pit parties? Speaker: A pit party? Well it would be like um an empty field and ah then somebody would kind-of say "Where this is where the pit party is" and then everybody would kind-of show up there and then you would- some pit parties you would camp like we would take tents and camp there and somebody- usually the music would just be out of somebody's vehicle. Um and yeah we did that on quite a few weekends I guess during the summer.

Speaker: Like we would all kind of go to someone's house and hang out or we used to have pit parties I guess. Interviewer: What are pit parties? Speaker: A pit party? Well it would be like um an empty field and ah then somebody would kind-of say "Where this is where the pit party is" and then everybody would kind-of show up there and then you would- some pit parties you would camp like we would take tents and camp there and somebody- usually the music would just be out of somebody's vehicle. Um and yeah we did that on quite a few weekends I guess during the summer.

Speaker: Ah we would- I think more have house party. Like we would all kind of go to someone's house and hang out or we used to have pit parties I guess. Interviewer: What are pit parties? Speaker: A pit party? Well it would be like um an empty field and ah then somebody would kind-of say "Where this is where the pit party is" and then everybody would kind-of show up there and then you would- some pit parties you would camp like we would take tents and camp there and somebody- usually the music would just be out of somebody's vehicle.

So, I-don't-know. There were a lot- I know there was a lot of- there were a lot of pit parties and there were a lot um bonfires and camp-outs and-stuff that- with strict parents, you can't go out drinking.

Yeah, this is beach-volleyball, too. Ah and a- and a fire-pit. And ah we'd hang out there a lot. ... So, I-don't-know. There were a lot- I know there was a lot of- there were a lot of pit parties and there were a lot um bonfires and camp-outs and-stuff that- with strict parents, you can't go out drinking.

Speaker: And ah, you-know we made our own fun. ... We- we always had something to do, we had- you-know, when we got our license and-that, we'd go to the pit, the gravel pits. Interviewer: You had pit parties? Speaker: Yeah pit parties. ... And ah, you-know we'd be drinking under-age of-course, but who cares?

Interviewer: Yeah. Is that where you- your favourite place to party would be though, when you were younger, would be out at the pits? Speaker: When I was in Elliot-Lake in ah, nineteen-seventy-nine, we started the pit party.

Speaker: Um we had pit parties at Twin-Lakes, we had big pit parties. Interviewer: They don't do that anymore. Speaker: No well- Interviewer: Cross-Lake. Speaker: People that own the pit- Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Find out that there's ah, three-hundred drunk kids on their pit on Saturday night.

Interviewer: Is that where you- your favourite place to party would be though, when you were younger, would be out at the pits? Speaker: When I was in Elliot-Lake in ah, nineteen-seventy-nine, we started the pit party. ... In there, about twenty-five miles out of town at a big- huge big pit. And ah, when I came back from there I said, "Hey, guess what we were doing in Elliot-Lake?"

Interviewer: You would have parties at Pete's-Dam though? ... Speaker: A whole life time ago. ... Um we had pit parties at Twin-Lakes, we had big pit parties. Interviewer: They don't do that anymore. Speaker: No well- ... People that own the pit- ... Find out that there's ah, three-hundred drunk kids on their pit on Saturday night.

Interviewer: Was it, ah- did you have a- a good ride going to town on the sleigh? Speaker: Oh yes. Interviewer: Was it, ah, was it smooth? Speaker: Oh yes, ah, well, unless there's pitchholes. Interviewer: Were- were there- was it- were there pitchholes there? Speaker: Pitchholes, I do remember in there from, ah, the eighth-line, there was an awful winter for snow.

Interviewer: What did you- what did- kind of road was it? What was it? Speaker: Oh, old road in the wintertime with maybe snow this high. Interviewer: Uh-huh. Speaker: Full of pitchholes between drifts. Mm, boys, they got what they called a ah- a frame sleigh with long runners. They were desperate. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: They come up over that and then whap down into it. It just- they had two seats in them. Usually there- four or five people going in it. Just pitch you right off the back seat (laughs). Interviewer: So you called them pitchholes.

Ah I remember they had, when I first came to Lakefield, the United-Church, which I was going to at that time, ah they must have hosted the plowing-match and they- and we had to make ten pies every member, to put in on this. Oh, and me just married and oh having to make ten pies, anyway I think that's why I joined the Presbyterians.