by Hughie Ferguson
(recorded in Dearborn, Michigan, February 2007)
Hughie, talking about his parents’ home in Inverness: The only job that I ever did, and it would be kind of a crazy job [today] — see, there were sixty-five windows in the house. And there was I forget how many storm windows.
Dave: Sixty-five storm windows!
Hughie: But imagine [...]
Characters, Ferguson, Bruce, Ferguson, Cassie, Ferguson, Danny (Skel), Ferguson, David, Ferguson, Hughie, Ferguson, Johnny, Ferguson, Mary, Ferguson, Mattie, Ferguson, Roddie, Ferguson, Sadie, MacIsaac, Catherine, Stories, Storytellers, told by Hughie Ferguson | Dave Ferguson March 24, 2007 | 
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by Dave Ferguson
For several years I worked for Amtrak, the U.S. rail passenger company. Our offices were at 400 North Capitol Street in Washington DC, just a short walk from the U.S. Capitol.
One day I had a phone call. The caller was very… enthusiastic.
“Hello, Dave! This is Fred Sidecar!”
That wasn’t his name, [...]
by Frank Macdonald
The first time I visited Detriot was the summer of 1963 if I recall correctly, when Greet and Hughie bundled me amid all the other children in the station wagon and set off from Cape Breton. This was an adventure for me, including one of my boyhood’s most memorable moments. I was a [...]
Characters, Ferguson, Hughie, Macdonald, Frank, Macdonald, Greet, Stories, Storytellers, told by Frank Macdonald | Dave Ferguson December 24, 2006 | Comments (0)
by Frank Macdonald
In the spring of 1967 I arrived in Detriot, a hungry relative who had failed to find work in Vancouver, barely worked in Sudbury and had the idea that I would make my way to Boston. I only had enough money to get to Detroit but I had this aunt and uncle, eh?
So [...]
Characters, Ferguson, Hughie, Macdonald, Frank, Macdonald, Greet, Stories, Storytellers, told by Frank Macdonald | Dave Ferguson December 18, 2006 | Comments (1)
by Hughie Ferguson as told to Dave Ferguson
Hughie talked a few weeks ago with a former boss from his time working at Chrysler’s Warren Stamping Plant on Mound Road in Warren, Michigan.
It reminded me…this was quite a while ago. It was on my birthday, so I decided that I wouldn’t work Saturday and Sunday, [...]
by David Ferguson
My cousin Frank once wrote about a report issued in Scotland that projected that in the future everyone in the world would be named Macdonald or descended from a Macdonald. “In other words,” Frank wrote, “they’re predicting the best of all possible worlds.”
That world just came much closer.
On my mother’s side of [...]
Characters, Ferguson, Hughie, Ferguson, Mattie, MacDougall, John, MacDougall, Sarah, MacFarlane, Catherine, MacLennan, Catherine, MacLennan, Roderick, Stories, Storytellers, told by David Ferguson | Dave Ferguson November 28, 2006 | Comments (0)
by David Ferguson
I moved from Detroit to Washington DC in 1977. For many years afterward my parents would visit us from time to time.
During one trip, in 1983, Dad said one day that he’d like to go into Washington with me (I was going into work part of the time while they were visiting). [...]
Characters, Ferguson, David, Ferguson, Hughie, Macdonald, Greet, Stories, Storytellers, told by David Ferguson | Dave Ferguson October 2, 2006 | Comments (0)
by Bruce Ferguson
One of the things I remember about Inverness was the times we spent on vacation there. Mom and Dad would farm out the five kids to various relatives so that we wouldn’t be such a burden to one family. John would stay with uncle Danny, Art would stay with uncle Roddie, Dave would [...]
Characters, Ferguson, Anne Marie, Ferguson, Art, Ferguson, Bruce, Ferguson, Danny (Skel), Ferguson, David, Ferguson, Hughie, Ferguson, John, Ferguson, Mattie, Ferguson, Roddie, Ferguson, Sadie, Macdonald, Billie, Macdonald, Greet, Stories, Storytellers, told by Bruce Ferguson | Dave Ferguson August 21, 2006 | Comments (1)
