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was twelve years old. I had a good voice but it's gone I'm sorry to say. I had a hemorrhage in my throat. Joanne: Which church did you belong to? Mrs. E: Well then there was only one Methodist Church in Oakland. Now, at one time--Episcopalian Church and the Wesley Church. In 1885, the year my mother and father was married, the churches amalgamated. There wasn't enough --see, there was only to start with a couple of hundred people. Of course it grew. And anyway, it amalgamated and it was called the Oakland Methodist Church. It's still there. We just put a window in the Oakland Church in memory of my mother and father. It was just put in a year ago. It's pretty. Joanne: How were you involved in the church besides being in the choir? Mrs. E: Well, I went to Sunday School and we had concerts for Christmas, you know. There was a Christmas concert. And, that's about all. I think one year a very ener¬getic minister's wife tried to drill us girls in a flag drill and I was the smallest one. There was two of us. We were partners. The rest of them could do it so much better and the small ones had to lead. We all had flags and red flashes. Oh. I remember that. Then we had a garden party on the 24th of May. Everybody was involved in that. And a picnic up, usually in a woods... usually up at Scotland in my husband)s father's grove. The grove is still there in Scotland. We used to go up there and have our picnic. Joanne: You've listed a bunch of special events. Is there any other special events at the church? Mrs. E: No, there would just be the picnics. Oh sometimes, in the winter time they'd have a concert and I know one time there was a quartet from Wilsonville came and entertained. But the most wonderful thing to me, now that I look back was--they got Pauline Johnson to recite. Everybody was so excited that Pauline Johnson was coming to recite. Everybody was so excited. But we'd had other allocutionists from Brantford and they always came in their most beautiful dresses and that amused me. I just loved that. Well, Pauline Johnson was coming and everybody was talking about it and when she stepped out on the platform she was in a plain leather dress with moccasins and had a beaded head band and one feather sticking up. I was so disappointed! (laughs) I was so disappointed but she gave, you know--she has a book, you probably have read her poems. I can only remember one poem that she recited. I could remember her voice. I'll always remember her voice, it was so beautiful. And she recited the song "My Paddle Sings" It was beautiful. I was only young hut I appreciated it then, even if I didn't appreciate her dress.