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01:20 So first off, can you tell me who you are and where you're from?
01:39 >> I'm from Lindsay, from St. Pete.
01:42 >> Lindsay, we're here at the country skills.
01:46 Who have you brought along for the day?
01:47 >> We brought Caleb and Joyce.
01:51 >> And how important are days like this here at the museum for
01:56 keeping alive the skills, the horse plowing skills?
02:00 >> Very important because this is a place where these skills should be kept.
02:04 Should be kept going in a regular place like here,
02:08 because there's not many other places where these skills are kept going,
02:13 you know what I mean?
02:14 >> Yeah, so it's really important.
02:15 >> Really important because we used to have a lot of plowing matches
02:20 around the country, but we used to have some in the wetter conditions.
02:25 >> Mm-hm.
02:26 >> Plowing matches is few and far between now.
02:29 >> Yeah, and how did you pick up the skills of horse plowing?
02:34 Did you learn them from the foot of your father, the knee of your father?
02:38 >> Yeah, I was brought up on a farm.
02:39 >> Mm-hm.
02:40 >> And you had to, in those days,
02:42 there wasn't no tractors.
02:47 >> Mm-hm.
02:48 >> And you had to put your hands in.
02:50 >> Mm-hm.
02:50 >> Not with the horses plowing and carrowing and grubbing and thrashing and
02:55 all that.
02:56 Just ordinary farm work, which is on the day,
02:59 only it was a slower pace in those days.
03:01 >> Yeah, yeah.
03:03 And you obviously still get a great deal of enjoyment.
03:05 >> Oh, yeah.
03:06 I like to keep the, especially see the younger generation,
03:10 like to see the younger generation coming forward and I could coach them a bit.
03:15 >> Yeah, and obviously the social aspect of it as well.
03:18 >> Yeah, yeah.
03:19 >> Keeping in contact with people and things like that, yeah.
03:23 Okay, spot on, thank you very much.
03:24 >> Thank you.
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