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What do you remember about the building that became the Minudie Hall?

They said it was a double house on what they call the back road, the back road that goes down by the cemetery. Some of the Acadians had it.

Do you remember when the hall was moved?

Wel I don't remember the actual moving, but I know when they got it there and got it set up, and when they started having the dances. I remember that, cos I was one of the kids who would sleep on the chairs.

No babysitter, couldn't afford a babysitter. In fact, anyone who could have babysat was old enough to go to the dances.

So how did they arrange the chairs for the children to sleep on?
... the chairs, they turned them with this outside (the chair back) for a railing, so that the kids laid on the seats against the wall so they couldn't fall on to the floor. There was somebody here the other day and thay said to me, I remember sleeping on those chairs.

I suppose I was seven or eight. I had to try to look after my little brother, but he was generally boss.