JOE’S TREK

According to his son Peter, Joe had always wanted to move to the “home place,” as he called it. He felt isolated over at South Shore and found it very inconvenient to use the ferry or to 'drivc around' in order to get to town. When the home place became available he sold his farm in Cumberland to the Murphys.

The winter of 1933-34 was the coldest for fiftyyears according to the older people of the Island. Peter Doyle described it this way. 'It set in very quickly in the fall. The men were in the fields plowing, unhitched their horses for the night and in the morning the plows were frozen into the ground—there to rennin for the winter.‘

Tom Murphy of Cumberland, said 'it was a very cold winter, one of the coldest I an remember. It was as cold as forty below zero [Fahrenheit]. People had their noses frozenin bed.‘ Beauseitwasso cold, with the help of his many

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