DARE Interview : Elizabeth City, North Carolina; Primary Informant NC084

Fieldworker

Murray, Laura

Date

• 1970

Publisher

Dictionary of American Regional English

Summary

• Informant Data:
• NC084: Black; female; age: 58 (middle-aged); education: 9th grade; community type: small city
• Media Files:
• Arthur the Rat. Speaker: NC084 (4:36)
• Full Interview (Tape 0991-S1).
• Content:
• 00:20 Arthur the Rat
• 04:55 Children's occupations, raising children, caring for her mother
• 08:50 Volunteer work, religious beliefs
• 09:55 Sewing clothing for family and professionally
• 13:00 Personal pleasures: singing religious songs, sewing, looking out the window
• 15:30 Sewing clothing, interest in home economics
• 20:45 Travel: compares bus and train travel to airplane travel
• 27:45 Singers in her family, local singing group; [sings religious song]
• 32:40 Tape end