DARE Interview : Honesdale, Pennsylvania; Primary Informant PA085

Fieldworker

Hausmann, Robert

Date

• 1968

Publisher

Dictionary of American Regional English

Summary

• Informant Data:
• PA085: White; male; age: 90 (old); education: grade school; community type: village
• Media Files:
• Full Interview 1 (Tape 1379-S1).
• Content:
• 00:30 Local history—date town was started, names of people who surveyed town, construction of streets
• 02:55 Informant’s job as a printer—described
• 10:50 Community description—population, reasons town was started
• 12:00 Description of canal—name, uses, direction, locks
• 18:15 Steam railroad
• 19:00 Family history—father’s death, date Informant’s grandparents came from England, wife’s uncle was a printer in New York
• 27:05 Description of town in early years
• 29:00 Job history
• 32:10 Tape end
• Full Interview 2 (Tape 1379-S2).
• Content:
• 00:05 Informant’s duties at silk factory
• 06:05 Description of dying silk
• 09:50 Local history—dairy country, invention of reversible plow
• 11:15 Family history—Informant never saw his grandfather, brother-in-law played baseball, Informant never had children
• 13:40 Informant is oldest member of the Masons
• 14:00 Date of his marriage, description of his wife
• 19:50 Description of flood—amount of water, number of dead
• 25:25 Informant has been inducted into the newspaperman’s Hall of Fame
• 32:15 Tape end