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What do you remember about the social life in Minudie when you were growing up?
The only reason we went to the dances was to look after the little kids. We were too young to dance ourselves.
Well we used to play ball. We didn't have a bat we got a stick, a stick of wood and a bunch of us would get together and play ball. And down in Minudie, there was a fellow there, the one's who had the geese that I was telling you about the other day. He built a great big swing across the road from his house, oh it was so beautiful! It was five posts or so high and right across the path, and it was strong so nobody would get hurt, and boy, that was the gathering place, that is when we got a little older. And when I was in grade 10 at Barronsfield school, I had to leave school to look after my grandfather, cos my mother was working.