DARE Interview : Campbellton, Florida; Primary Informant FL018

Fieldworker

Porter, Ruth

Date

• 1965

Publisher

Dictionary of American Regional English

Summary

• Informant Data:
• FL018: White; female; age: 69 (old); education: college; community type: rural
• Media File:
• Full Interview (Tape 0253-S1).
• Content:
• 00:25 Not clear whether town was named for Campbell or Camp Bell; story of iron fence around a woman's grave that has been locked for 140 years or so
• 04:20 Uncle who was in U.S. Civil War, broke off an engagement because of his drinking
• 06:50 School where she was the first woman to teach successfully . Basketball and poverty
• 11:25 Man waiting with a gun to shoot the bus driver, encounters with moonshine
• 14:40 Case of pints and rooster for Christmas, smuggling moonshine. Children missed her when she left
• 18:30 Cigar-smoking boy, another school which had run off seven teachers in one year
• 22:45 Her family ran the post office for 75 years, but she turned it down when offered
• 26:30 Family lived in area for quite a long time; mother not permitted by grandfather to take an office job
• 30:25 Grandmother coping with loss of slaves and money after U.S. Civil War
• 32:00 Tape end