From an interview with Sue Bragg, who was 102 at the time of the interview Q. What organizations did you belong to? A. I belonged to the Baptist young people’s union once and I belonged to the Sons of Temperance sometimes and the other little organizations of the Church. Q. Could you tell me about the Sons of Temperance? A. The what....? Q. The Sons of Temperance? A. Well it was an organization where you were supposed to be a teetotaler and they had it in this community for quite some time and then the organization seemed to die out in the head quarters and it just died out and there’s no word of it anymore. Q. Why do you think it died out? A. I think people got so they liked to drink a little bit.
	From an interview with Harry Hill, Bear River Q. So how often would you go visit the doctor? A. Never been to ‘im. Never had. I went to school one time, and they used to go around and have the nurse come in to examine you for your, a tonsils. Teacher said you got ….to have your tonsils out. Well I was about thirteen years old. Ya she said your tonsils are bad. So it kept going on and on, and I never got ‘em out. There was a lady came from From New York, she was a preacher, a woman. I told her about my tonsils. She said: “Mr. Hill I can heal you.” So one Sunday I went over to church, then she healed me, of my tonsils. I had to stand up in front of the church, put my hand on my head, I never forgot it, talked to me, “do I believe”?, this and that, “yes”. I never had no more trouble with my tonsils, from that day ‘til now, never. Copyright © 2001 Municipality of the County of Digby