Name: Carman FranklandInterviewer: Shawn OliverInterview:Question: What is your name?Answer: Carman FranklandQuestion: How old are you?Answer: 81Question: What did you do for chores as a child?Answer: I had to carry water in buckets from the well, chop kindling wood, carry the wood in to keep the woodbox full. We had a garden and I helped with planting, hoeing and weeding. I had to milk the cows too.Question: What did you do in your free time for fun?Answer: My favourite game would have to been hide and go seek. I played that until grade 5 and 6.Question: What was your favourite subject in school?Answer: Reading.Question: Did you have a lot of homework?Answer: No, we didn't have work to do, we studied from books though. We studied grammar, math, from our speller and our reader.Question: What do you like most about Digby?Answer: Digby is so clean, little, friendly and nice. It had a lot of stores and nice scenery. I like being near the water.Question: What did you value most in life?Answer: I valued life, family, everything to do with family and friendship.Question: What were your favourite memories?Answer: Growing up in a lovely family and teenage years spent with friends. I was much involved in the church, we had youth group on Friday and prayer meeting on Wednesday. When I was older I remember working at my brother's fish plant when I had days off. I liked being with family. Audrey and I were very close, growing up we did chores together. The family had all pleasant memories. I enjoyed good health and memory over 80 years. I liked my family very much, it was nice and respectable.Question: Do you remember any funny stories from your childhood?Answer: We had a chicken that couldn't lay eggs so we put duck eggs under it because the duck wouldn't sit on them. The chicken hatched the eggs and thought they were chickens. When the ducks got older they went to the beach in the water. We had a long driveway and we lived near the beach so the ducks would waddle to the beach and go for a swim. The chicken would follow them and she would go in until the feathers on her legs touched the water and she would run around and cluck if she got wet. When the ducks were done swimming they went home and the chicken was happy then.Question: What was it like on the farm?Answer: We had all kinds of animals; cows, ducks, chickens, horses and we made pets of them. The ducks would hold on to your pant legs and would get a ride around the farm. The cats we had were like people, they had the run of the house.Question: What was your job?Answer: I spent five years on a fish dragger but I got seasick too easily. My wife got me a job at the lighthouse as an assistant lighthouse keeper. Eventually, I became the main keeper and I was the last keeper before it became automated. I met many tourists while I worked at the lighthouse. I had a guestbook with signatures from all over Europe and I had the signature of one lady from India. I used to take a truck full of clams out of the shell on the boat and drive to East Machias, Maine. I would leave on the early boat. Sometimes I would bring clams in the shell back with me. We used them at the fish plant. I did small jobs there in my free time. I used to clean the freezers, and did small machinery repair. I worked at many other things. I built my house and did all the wiring, under supervision. I lived there on the last of my job as a keeper and have been there for 20 years.Question: What was Digby like when you were young compared to now?Answer: I lived 5 or 6 miles out of Digby most of my life. It hasn't grown a lot in size. There was not much for waterfront, there wasn't anything like a marina. Digby has been modernized a lot. We got a mall and new stores. The road to Bayview was dirt and many homes were built. The ferry moved from the wharf downtown to Shore Road. My family had changed a lot too.Question: Do you remember any major events?Answer: There was a ship that went ashore that was loaded with certified potato seeds and potatoes. It had to be unloaded to make it light enough to float off shore. People took their cows to the shore and they used their horns to open the crates to get the seeds and potatoes, the cows ate potatoes all day. My father had a boat, "Old Faithful" that he used to get potatoes. He salvaged things from other wrecks too.