The Frost family had chickens and cows on their farm. "We had as high as 30 some that was milking. I think at one time we had 40 head that was milking. at one time we had two hired men before the boys got big enough and then the boys took over and it helped too until they got so they wanted to go out and work out and get ahead by themselves. At one time we had two hired men before the boys got big enough and then the boys took over and it helped too until they got so they wanted to go out and work out and get ahead by themselves. We used to buy 100 chickens just as they was hatched and you'd have about 50 - 50. Fifty roosters and 50 pullets. Then I could kill the roosters in the fall and it would kind of pay - well it would pay us for bringing up the pullets, and we'd have pullets all ready to lay. We had a double hen house, you know partitioned off so we could keep them." Jane Dudley asked if they sold the milk and Hazel Frost answered, "We didn't at first. At first I made butter. Lyston would go to Woodland on - or Calais on Tuesdays and Woodland on Fridays and we sold butter, eggs, cream and buttermilk. He sold it to customers. We had a truck. It was a car, but it was a truck with just the top over it, but he had side curtains that he could put on for it. If it rained he had the side curtains." Jane Dudley asked about Hazel's mother's herb garden. "Mother had an herb garden back of the house. She used to grow sage and summer savory, chives, and I don't know what else. I was small at that time. She used to dry those herbs, and use them, too. She'd hang them upstairs in what - well, there was one room, we called it the ell chamber. And, it wasn't finished, and it was just, you know, like this, but it had a floor in it and we'd hang things up in there. That was a nice drying place because the chimney went right up through there." Jane's next question was about the toys and games in Hazel's childhood. "Well, we played what they called duck on the rock. We played baseball. We played tag. We used to put a tin can on something and they'd all go hide. We'd all have a stick and we'd run out and flip this - we used to call it the duck - and see if we could get back hid before that goal tender would get that back and if he touched that can why we were caught. I had a doll. My mother made the body for it and it was a china head. It was a little girl. I remember she had black hair painted on the head." There were eleven children in the Cousins family. One little girl died when she was two years old. Hazel's parents are buried in the Alexander Cemetery. Hazel went to school at the four corners. "My first teacher was Etta Crosby. She's a relation to Dyer, somewhere. I went to True Varnum. I went to Bert Legacy, and I went to Bert Flood." Hazel's sister Marcia was also a teacher who taught Hazel. There were nine grades in the school. Hazel Cousins Frost was born May 11, 1902. During the early years of their marriage, Lyston and Hazel Frost lived in Winslow, Maine for about a year while Lyston worked on a farm. Hazel said they returned to Alexander because Lyston wanted to come home. "He said that he - that the work was too heavy for him because he was running a single cross-cut saw and he wasn't strong enough to do that. But, he learned a lot on that farm because those was registered jerseys and I think that is where he got interested in running a farm and taking good care of cattle." (The interview ended and a new recording began.) "This is Jane Dudley recording the day after the interview with Hazel Frost. On the 1861 map, I find a Mrs. M. B. Townsend recorded as the resident of the house of which Hazel has been describing. And on the 1881 map a J. McLean and a S. P. Goltel are indicated as co-owners. I'll spell the name Goltel because I'm not certain it's spelled correctly. The printing is very fancy. G- o-l-t-e-l. (According to John Dudley of the A-CHS, the name actually is Shephert Cottel or Cottle) We also have noted on this 1881 map a few misspellings of other names and this may be one to question."