DARE Interview : Jacksonville, Florida; Primary Informant FL016

Fieldworker

Porter, Ruth

Date

• 1966

Publisher

Dictionary of American Regional English

Summary

• Informant Data:
• FL016: White; male; age: 49 (middle-aged); education: college; community type: large city
• Media Files:
• Arthur the Rat. Speaker: FL016 (3:16)
• Full Interview (Tape 0251-S1).
• Content:
• 00:20 Hunting and fishing with his family. Different types of local fish and how to catch them
• 05:40 Catching drum and Spanish mackerel; illegal methods in area: dynamite, electricity, seining
• 08:50 How to gig a bullfrog, local hunting of bear, dove, quail, and squirrel. Gopher turtles
• 13:00 Armadillos killed by people. Alligators illegal to hunt, receding from people. Not dangerous to people, but love to eat dogs
• 16:15 Mosquito control
• 17:30 Arthur the Rat
• 20:55 Rattlesnakes and water moccasins common, but coral snakes deadlier. How to treat coral bite with blood from a snake handler
• 25:25 Habits of snakes; livestock which they bother. Story of razorback hog eating a nest of moccasins
• 29:45 Tape end