DARE Interview : Tangier, Virginia; Primary Informant VA112

Fieldworker

Huizenga, Sharon

Date

• 1970

Publisher

Dictionary of American Regional English

Summary

• Informant Data:
• VA112: White; male; age: 55 (middle-aged); education: grade school; community type: rural
• Media Files:
• Full Interview 1 (Tape 1723-S1).
• Content:
• 00:15 Life cycle of crab, names for crabs, crab selling, crab cakes
• 07:55 Fishing—clams, crab, fish, oysters
• 09:25 Crabbing, stages of crab life, eels
• 13:25 Eels eat boat caulking
• 14:35 Cranes, clams, seagulls
• 17:25 Oyster toads
• 18:20 Crabbing, crab life
• 23:30 Marsh birds, sea birds, geese, ducks
• 32:35 Birds
• 32:55 Tape end
• Full Interview 2 (Tape 1723-S2).
• Content:
• 00:05 Crab dredge fishing; crab pot fishing
• 07:15 Fish, crabs, weather
• 11:40 Account of first time he ate sugar toad (fish)
• 14:45 Fishing, fish
• 20:30 Oyster fishing, oysters, clams
• 28:10 Crab life, crab fishing
• 32:40 Tape end