From an interview with Raleigh Bates, fish plant worker and fishermen, Freeport Q. So what happened to all the fish, Raleigh? A. Draggers. Ruined the bottom. Tore hell out of the bottom. Tore off the feeding ground, spun the ground and everything all up. That's all the that happened to the fish. They was getting cod fish this summer, some of the Westport boats, going way down the bay about three or four miles. Down one day, stay all night and back the next day. They was catching cod fish, pollock and stuff. That's all that's wrong with it is the draggers tore the devil out of the bottom - no place for them to feed or spawn up here in the Bay of Fundy. Q. Do you think they'll come back? A. Oh, come back in time, yes. If they could cut the draggers out for awhile, it would soon come back.
	From an interview with Raymond Thurber, fishermen, Freeport Q. O.K. What is the worst weather you can remember? A. Well, the worst weather I can be….. a remember is a…..one we had….what they called the “Hog Storm”. Q. Ground Hog Day. A. Ground Hog Day. That’s the worst one I ever was involved. Pretin’ near ruined me, that did. Q. Right. A. I lost a….two boats. Wharfs, buildins’ and everything. And that one boat, I just brought home. I brought it home on a Saturday, a new one. And I lost it on Monday. And the other one wasn’t very old, that I lost. I lost everything and I’ve been workin’ years for to collect up and…..
	From an interview with Mac Dakin, Westport Q. I hear you have a Charles Lindbergh story to tell me. A. Oh yeah. Well it’s not a story. He flew over my head. He’s the one….I’m the one that he saw. He doesn’t know that. I was fishing in the….It was a fine day in May…1928, that was….in May. And a….I was seventeen years old. I was in the bow of my boat. It was fine. I went to save gas, which was eighteen cents a gallon then. So, we couldn’t afford… (laughter) The engine was stopped and it was so fine. I was in the bow, of a tub, down between my leg, haulin’ over the roller, and what not. And I heard up, a buzzin’ sound, you know like…..I didn’t know what…I’d never seen an airplane in my life. (He is making the sound of any airplane.) I happen to look, in the back of me, and I saw this thing, comin’ up in the air. Looked like a hornet or something. ‘Course he saw me from the air, before I did him. He come down, right down, close. It was “The Spirit of St. Louis”, on the side. Charles Lindbergh, little white by-plane. He come down….he wasn’t fifty feet from me, any more. He went over my head and he waved. I waved back at him. He mentioned in his memoirs, but he doesn’t know who it was. I never did tell ‘im. Q. So when he flew down over you, did you know that was Charles Lindbergh? A. Yes. Q. At that time? A. Why yes. Q. You would have read stories that……? A. Oh yes, why no. I knew who it was. You couldn’t miss, ‘cause it was “The Spirit of St. Louis” rate on the side of her. A white by-plane…..oh yes, she was. They didn’t go Very fast, then. “Bout ninety miles an hour, I’d say. I don’t know how they ever got there, but he got around the world, just the same. He made it. Q. Amazing. Copyright © 2001 Municipality of the County of Digby