DARE Interview : Brooklyn, New York; Primary Informant NY044

Fieldworker

Greenberg, Iris

Date

• 1968

Publisher

Dictionary of American Regional English

Summary

• Informant Data:
• NY044: White; male; age: 56 (middle-aged); education: high school; community type: urban
• Media Files:
• Arthur the Rat. Speaker: NY044 (3:28) [Tape slows down at the end of the reading]
• Full Interview (Tape 1093-S1).
• Content:
• 00:25 Local history—Canarsie in the past
• 01:15 Oyster and clam fishing, shellfish dishes, clamdiggers
• 05:50 Islands in Jamaica Bay, clamdigger housing
• 09:20 Fishing, fish caught locally in past
• 11:05 Local farms in past, great-grandfather's farm in Canarsie
• 12:20 Pollution of bay and end of shellfish industry
• 13:40 Local history—schools, housing, transportation, landfills
• 17:35 Great-grandmother was American Indian, Canarsie Indians
• 18:30 Marble games
• 22:50 Pigeon raising locally [no details]
• 25:15 Local church 130 years old
• 27:15 Arthur the Rat
• 30:35 Tape end