Cecil County Oral History Project
Audio Recording Log
Name of interviewee:
Neil Taylor, Jr., M.D.
Name of interviewer:
Jenifer Dolde
Birth date: 19 June 1925
Recording format:
Digital audio (memory card) X Other (specify)_______________________
Date of recording: 12 January 2006 Location: Rising Sun, MD
Length of interview (in minutes): 161 min. Number of CDs:
Date master CD(s)
created: Date backup CD(s) created:
Location of CDs:
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Related documentary materials:
Number of photographs:
Format:
Location of photographs: Index on file, images on CD
Description of photographs:
- __________________________________________________________________
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Transcription:
Date of transcription:
2006 (Dixie Blake) Number
of pages: 45 pages
Location of hard copy:
FILE Location of
disc copy: CD storage
Summary of topics in order on the recording:
Time (min.) Topic
NT5 0:00 Young
man drowning at Nottingham
Academy and Boy scout
NT6 2:30 Johnny Lough’s first accident as
trooper, friendship
NT6 5:00 Escaped baboon story
NT6 11:40 Story of bad accident and Dr. Taylor’s
court appearance
NT6 16:14 Thanksgiving Day hunting accident,
ambulance converted bread truck
NT6 20:57 Story of state trooper’s pregnant wife in
back of car
NT6 21:27 Incidents around holidays
NT6 22:27 Discussion of payment, fungible,
insurance
NT6 30:00 Nursing
homes
NT6 35:18 Bessie
Graham
NT6 35:00 Traveling
to Europe
NT6 37:25 Wife’s
family and death of her parents
NT6 40:20 Great
grandfather who went out west
NT6 44:00 Mother
a poet
NT6 58:50 Dr. Taylor encouraged family
to educate promising child who later became an engineer
NT7 0:00 Keeping
bantam roosters in town
NT7 3:56 Salamander found in Octoraro Creed,
“Hell bender”
NT7 5:15 Story of snake under dashboard
NT7 11:00 Giving calcium to a sick cow
NT7 13:24 Learning how to break into safes and
unlock locks
NT7 17:30 Death on Mason-Dixon
line
NT7 19:30 Discussion of prejudice and Christianity
NT7 25:19 Changes
in Rising Sun, Bible study group
NT7 37:00 Reaction
to historical events, Three Mile Island,
Kennedy assassination
NT7 40:00 Playing
volleyball at high school
NT7 42:00 Doctor’s
automobile accident near Conowingo
NT7 46:00 Discussion
of doctors
NT7 47:00 Illness
of son and wife
(remainder not indexed)
