DARE Interview : Old Mystic, Connecticut; Primary Informant CT041

Fieldworker

Goldberg, David

Date

• 1969

Publisher

Dictionary of American Regional English

Summary

• Informant Data:
• CT041: White; female; age: 96 (old); community type: village
• Media File:
• Full Interview (Tape 0216-S1).
• Content:
• 00:30 Going to school, and then working on a spinning machine at mill. Siblings and parents.
• 04:40 Different rooms in mill—warp, weaving, spinning. Father worked in lap room
• 07:45 Working as a domestic, and going back to mill work after marriage
• 10:35 Vacations and fun while working at the mills
• 13:00 Time in nursing homes, getting in trouble with super in mill for laughing
• 15:40 Childhood games—drop-the-handkerchief and hide-and-go-seek. Climbing trees.
• 18:15 Mother's bread and sister's cakes. How her hair was when she was young.
• 21:05 The apparent vanishing of her pension
• 24:45 Getting along with her oldest brother because he bought her dolls
• 29:30 Tape end