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And that's the first time I ever received a postcard. It was an Easter postcard. It must have been about 1908 or 1909. I don't know when /the date/ postcards first came out, but I remember them when they first came out. Joanne: How did you used to celebrate May 24th? Mrs. E: Oh, we had a garden party. Oakland had a garden party always on May 24th. And they had salmon sandwiches. You see, that's the only kind of sandwich that would keep. They had no refrigeration. You couldn't keep meats and nobody ever thought of making an egg sandwich. All the farmers eat so many eggs anyways. (laughs) It would be no treat. But the day before the garden party, well, all the ladies would go--the garden parties were at different places. Some one would offer their place, you see. And this Fred Vivian, he would be the one that would open the tall, tall cans of salmon--red salmon. They'd get a whole case of it for less than 25 cents a tin, you know. And he'd open it and they'd actually mix it up in a small wash tub. Then everybody'd put some vinegar in and pepper and salt and there was lots of tasting going on, you know. After they got it all done, then they'd sit down at the kitchen table and they had sort of an assembly line. Remember, the broad was unsliced and unwrapped at that time. So somebody had to slice that bread. The next one would butter it. The next one would put the filling on. The next one would put it together and cut it and then it was put on--they'd roll a sheet, a bed sheet. They'd dampen it and put it in a great big clothes basket like we used to have. They put it in there and they'd pile that full. But they made--I don't know how many--and then they'd close it over and take it down cellar. That was what they had, salmon sandwiches. They they'd go around to people and see how many cakes and how many pies would they give. I know mother'd make three or four pies and a couple of cakes and probably a bottle of pickles thrown in. Joanne: What also did you do at the Garden Parties? Mrs. E: Oh, we had a regular--we had a band, sometimes we'd get the Salvation Army Band from Brantford and some¬times Scotland had a band. If they weren't busy we'd get them and they'd play all the time. But then they'd have a program too. As I said once, we had a drill and there was a Leta Malcolm that used to recite and she recited. I used to sing and a lot of other people did too. You never went away. They always had their own program. Joanne: Do you remember anything about the band-shell in Scotland? Mrs. E: I have it for you that--I have a picture of it and every thing, (tape shut off. Mrs. Eddy takes us into the other room to show us her picture and she also recited the poem "The Old Bandshell" By Veleria Malcolm.)