McMaster interviews McMaster, 1959
In my recent Plot Trysts interview ( https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog... ) I'd remarked about a recording my father had made of my grandfather in 1959, talking mostly about his childhood in Washington, Pennsylvania in the 1890s. Commenter Brad longed to see a transcript. Thanks to the wonders of modern technology and my son's IT support, I'm able to go that one better. The actual interview is now posted here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/10JBj...
And should be publicly listen-able.
This recording has a precarious history. It was originally made on my dad's old (then new) 7" reel tape recorder, up in his home office up on the second floor of our Columbus, Ohio, house, resulting in a reel of tape I rescued at some point after he passed away. It was by then (late 80s) moldy and disheartening, but I somehow got the great folks at Reader's Chair, my then-audiobooks company, to clean it up and re-record in on a CD and some mini-cassettes. Mini-cassettes are now also obsolete, but I still have the CD, which still plays in my Blu Ray player. I'd been wanting to get it into a shareable audio file for some time, and this gave me the push. (Thanks, Brad and Rachael!)
I'd meditated in my Plot Trysts interview on the elastic nature of time, that in the course of 130 years, which seems, or used to seem, like a long time, three people spanning the whole could still at one point talk to one another. We can't do that anymore, but at least now anyone can listen.
Ta, L.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/10JBj...
And should be publicly listen-able.
This recording has a precarious history. It was originally made on my dad's old (then new) 7" reel tape recorder, up in his home office up on the second floor of our Columbus, Ohio, house, resulting in a reel of tape I rescued at some point after he passed away. It was by then (late 80s) moldy and disheartening, but I somehow got the great folks at Reader's Chair, my then-audiobooks company, to clean it up and re-record in on a CD and some mini-cassettes. Mini-cassettes are now also obsolete, but I still have the CD, which still plays in my Blu Ray player. I'd been wanting to get it into a shareable audio file for some time, and this gave me the push. (Thanks, Brad and Rachael!)
I'd meditated in my Plot Trysts interview on the elastic nature of time, that in the course of 130 years, which seems, or used to seem, like a long time, three people spanning the whole could still at one point talk to one another. We can't do that anymore, but at least now anyone can listen.
Ta, L.
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That was fascinating. The McMaster family don't have to go back very far to find when they immigrated to North America. What about the Bujold family?
Kosigan wrote: "That was fascinating. The McMaster family don't have to go back very far to find when they immigrated to North America. What about the Bujold family?"I don't know as much about the ancestors of my late ex (and my kids, perforce) except that most of the Bujolds of Canada, Minnesota, and, interestingly, Louisiana, are descended from a few early French Catholic immigrants dating back to the 1600s. (Making an interesting compare-and-contrast with my Jacques Gerould ancestor who came as a French Huguenot refugee in 1700 to New England.) I've heard that the Bujold name has largely died out back in France, and that the roots of that surname may be Scandinavian. (Immigrant Northmen, maybe...?)
There's more on my family history (albeit only my mother's side) to be found in The Gerould Family of New Hampshire in the Civil War, my history e-chapbook to be found on Kindle.
The WikiTree event from a few years back, which actually inspired me to finally put together the chapbook, turned up a lot more, including my father's mother's family about whom I'd known nothing. I blogged it, back when, if you scroll back.
Ta, L.
Thanks for sharing it!