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DG: And then at the same time he started developing cranberries, okay. Do you know how he thought of that or why got into that?
RM: Cranberries? Well, I think, let's see, now, I had that written in that story about, but...
DG: Well, now is oysters a seasonal thing?
RM: Oysters is seasonal, yeah. So is cranberries.
DG: So maybe he wasn't busy all year with the oysters and so he had time to do something else?
RM: Well, that could have been, yeah. I don't know exactly why he got into...
DG: Now, when was it that you bought property? When did you build your house? Do you remember?
RM: Oh, the house. Gosh, I don't know, must have been in the '20s.
DG: In the 1920s and so you would have been like what, ten?
RM: Something like that, yeah.
DG: Now, he worked for the MacGowans for maybe like ten or twelve years. So then he was saving money all that time.
RM: Uh-huh.
DG: So that would have brought you to like 1922, '24.
RM: Yes, in that area.
DG: And then he bought some property?
RM: Uh-huh.
DG: Now, aliens couldn't own property.
RM: Yeah, so we had to have a guardian. His name was Mr. Dupay and he had a hardware store, and that's what our connection was. We bought quite a few stuff and so he helped us on that end of it.
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