DARE Interview : Capron, Virginia; Primary Informant VA070

Fieldworker

Murray, Laura

Date

• 1970

Publisher

Dictionary of American Regional English

Summary

• Informant Data:
• VA070: Black; male; age: 61 (old); education: grade school; community type: rural
• Media Files:
• Arthur the Rat. Speaker: VA070 (8:36)
• Full Interview (Tape 1726-S1).
• Content:
• 00:10 Arthur the Rat
• 08:50 Butchering hogs and curing meat; chitlins
• 13:20 Farming machinery—peanut harvesting, corn harvesting, cotton harvesting (past and present)
• 22:00 Current farming practices
• 23:40 Fishing
• 25:10 Family history—his father's farms, his own education and farm work as a child
• 28:55 One-room school
• 30:35 His name
• 31:55 Tape end