DARE Interview : Grundy Center, Iowa; Primary Informant IA003

Fieldworker

McCabe, Charles

Date

• 1967

Publisher

Dictionary of American Regional English

Summary

• Informant Data:
• IA003: White; female; age: 72 (old); education: college; community type: small city
• Media Files:
• Arthur the Rat. Speaker: IA003 (2:51)
• Full Interview 1 (Tape 0347-S1).
• Content:
• 00:20 Hobbies: genealogy; reading—mostly nonfiction, reviews books (mostly about people); birdwatching—gives talks
• 04:00 Teaching career
• 04:30 Educational background
• 05:40 Family history—back to great-grandparents
• 07:42 Husband's career—farming
• 10:20 Cattle—terms for feed, traits
• 14:30 History of Grundy Center (compilation)—geography, discontinued industries
• 20:40 Important events and changes in Grundy Center
• 28:35 Teaching
• 31:42 Tape end
• Full Interview 2 (Tape 0347-S2).
• Content:
• 00:00 Teaching literature—makes up in gusto what she lacks in knowledge
• 00:58 Herbert Quick, famous local author, his early life
• 03:10 Wrote 18-19 books, three set in Grundy Center
• 08:10 Small patches of crops grown in Iowa to show children; peanuts, tobacco, cotton
• 09:17 Goose hybridization
• 10:52 Types of woodpeckers in area
• 12:30 Short Sunday school story
• 12:55 Arthur the Rat
• 15:46 Tape end