Change I was about 30 when I got married, 1916. We celebrated our golden jubilee the year before my wife died. She died 10 years ago last May, my wife. I was married in Charlottetown , in the Queen Hotel.... We came home to her home in Roseberry and had a little time there, kind of a ball that was attached to the wedding. I suppose there'd be 40 or 50 people or more. All the neighbours around. I forget who the fiddler was. I guess probably it was Jimmy Ross ... . He used to play the violin. Now, they make the biggest fuss over weddings. Every paper you pick up is this couple and that couple that were united in marriage. They talk about it two or three months or six months before it comes off. Them years, people got married and you didn't know they got married. Everything has changed. Is this change for the better? Some things are and some things ain't, I don't think. We lost a lot of our friendships, and the people around visiting, and the long nights in the wintertime playing cards and telling stories. We have none of that today. I read a letter that David Weale 1 made on heritage here through the winter, and he mentioned that one of the things we miss very much is the old storytellers we used to have long ago. There were lots of them then telling stories, and they would add a little to it that could make them a little worse than they really were. Now, that was great entertainment. You're sitting now, night after night, you won't see anybody. The automobile has got a lot to do with that, and the television, and all those things that keep people from visiting like they used to. Don't you think so? Oh yes. I remember my uncle John Nicholson up the road here, lived about a mile and a half up the road here. Him and his wife would walk down here and they'd stay till 12 o'clock. That would be early for him. And he'd get up to go and he'd be standing at the door there talking 10 minutes after he got up. And the wife, "Come on, come on." There was no end to his stories. I forget what the stories were. They were quite interesting. Now, a great storyteller we had was John James MacDonald over here.... He was a wonderful storyteller. Jack Cantelo down here. Charlie MacDougall . I'm the only one that I grew up with in this district left here. The only one. 1. Dr. David Weale is a professor of history at University of Prince Edward Island . Neil Morrison 3