DARE Interview : Elbert County, Georgia; Primary Informant GA001

Fieldworker

Lampman, Michael

Date

• 1966

Publisher

Dictionary of American Regional English

Summary

• Informant Data:
• GA001: White; male; age: 60 (old); education: grade school; community type: rural
• Media Files:
• Arthur the Rat. Speaker: GA001 (5:32) [Some buzzing at beginning]
• Full Interview 1 (Tape 0289-S1).
• [Transcription available]
• Content:
• 00:15 Cutting timber for sawmill, how it will be cut. Stack by size to dry it before sending it to a planer mill
• 05:30 Sawdust pulled out by a chain, burn scraps in steam boiler, or used for pulpwood now
• 07:20 Mill only when not busy on the farm. Planting and plowing cycle for cotton and corn. All done by mule
• 12:15 Pulling corn and picking cotton. Cotton picked by hand and sent to gin, get bales, seeds, cottonseed oil. Corn fed to stock or milled for family use
• 16:20 Threshing grain, use chaff and straw for hay. No special hay, did use peavines mixed with cane
• 19:00 Story of pound supper and old man with a pipe. Trapping to make money and catching polecats
• 24:00 Catching a polecat while possum hunting, makes dogs sick
• 27:20 Tape end
• Full Interview 2 (Tape 0289-S2).
• Content:
• 00:00 Arthur the Rat
• 05:40 Tape end