by Rose Ferguson It was Sunday morning brunch in Mabou. I was SO HUNGRY and the tiny diner we were eating in was packed. I felt that the wait was unusually long and started complaining with such comments as, “What…do they need to wait for the hens to lay the eggs?” Jo-Anne seemed to know [...]
Ferguson, Rose, Macdonald, Joanne, told by Rose Ferguson | Dave Ferguson November 10, 2011 | 
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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 [...]
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 | Comments (0)
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 [...]
Characters, Ferguson, David, Stories, Storytellers, told by David Ferguson | Dave Ferguson December 26, 2006 | Comments (0)
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Characters, Church, Al, Ferguson, Hughie, Stories, Storytellers, told by David Ferguson, told by Hughie Ferguson | Dave Ferguson December 15, 2006 | Comments (0)
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 [...]
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 [...]
Characters, Ferguson, David, Ferguson, Hughie, Macdonald, Greet, Stories, Storytellers, told by David Ferguson | Dave Ferguson October 2, 2006 | Comments (0)
