Every pioneer must have been somewhat of a carpenter; as well as building houses and barns, they made furniture, some still in use today, as well as implements and gadgets around the farm; and some farmers were also shipbuilders, for example: the Aulds, Neil Leitch , David and Cornelius Higgins, Neil, James and Malcolm Shaw, David, Cornelius and Robert Lawson, and the MacMillan brothers. The Falmouth settlers brought a variety of skills to Stanhope ; there was a blacksmith, Robert Auld ; a tailor, John Jamieson ; several weavers, including Lawrence Brown , Peter Leech , and John MacGregor , who was also a surveyor; and a shoemaker. This man, name unknown, was an important community craftsman, converting cowhide into boots and shoes for the settlers; later, Robert Auld Jr. was named as a shoemaker. We have no record of a tannery here, though settler Francis Longworth was a tanner, and was a currier, or leather dresser. Probably home-tanning was yet another pioneer skill ??? the censuses report how many pounds of leather each family pro?? duced per year. Although the thousand-acre flax farm envisaged by Sir James Montgomery did not materialise, flax was grown by farmers here, and the fibres woven into linen. However, sheep's wool was the main source of clothing and bedding, and the women were kept busy washing the fleeces, carding and spinning the wool, weaving the yarn into "homespun" for clothes and blankets, and knitting it into socks, sweaters, caps and mitts. In the censuses, cloth was listed as so many yards per family per year, fulled or unfulled. Fulling the woven cloth involved manipulating it with fuller's earth, a kind of clay, until the wool fibres were matted together, giving a solid thick cloth. Anyone who has seen " Les Feux Follets" at the Charlottetown Summer Festival will remember the fulling bee, with the cloth passed from hand to hand down a long table, accompanied by the appropriate Gaelic song. Yarn and cloth were dyed with homemade dyes from woods and garden; onion skins gave a good yellow, from alder bark brown was obtained, and from moss came a beautiful green; the blue berries of corn lilies gave blue or purple, and cranberries could be used for red. Crafts such as weaving and quilting, which are in the nature of hobbies today, were necessities in the old days. The very first quilts were made from the last little pieces of clothes which had been well worn, possibly cut down and handed down from adults to children; finally the good bits of a number of garments of all shapes and textures were pieced together to form a"crazy quilf'for somebody's bed. This was the top layer; the middle layer was usually an old flannel sheet or blanket (forerunner of cotton or terylene batts) and the bottom layer was unbleached cotton which was boiled to whiten it. Later, the tops of quilts were made of squares of different coloured material, and later 28