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 [...]
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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 Hughie Ferguson and Greet Macdonald as told to David Ferguson
Greet: When Roddie was really sick, we made a point of going. We always stopped to see them anyway as we drove down and back. But the last year we were going to stay two or three days in Antigonish.
And we were going [...]
by Hughie Ferguson and Greet Macdonald as told to David Ferguson
David: Do you remember your grandparents?
Hughie: My grandfather was Hughie.
Greet: And his grandmother lived with them after the grandfather died. She couldn’t speak English.
Hughie: With the Gaelic, oh, yeah. They did a lot of talking about it.
David: What did he do?
Hughie: He was [...]
David: You never told me how it was you guys decided to come to the States, which I never knew.
Greet: You never knew how we decided?
David: No, well, you probably didn’t ask my opinion back then.
Greet: I’ll tell you. There was no jobs in Inverness.
Hughie: That was it.
Greet: We were down to just a few [...]
