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 and found it very inconvenient to use the ferry or to "drive 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 1935-34 was the coldest for fifty years 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 remain for the winter." Tom Murphy of Cumberland , said "it was a very cold winter, one of the coldest I can remember. It was as cold as forty below zero [Fahrenheit]. People had their noses frozen in bed." Because it was so cold, with the help of his many Scale: o 10 kilometers miles Charlottetown \r i ^7 (\ j/ Cumberland ml'* JOE 'S TREK 78