DARE Interview : Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania; Primary Informant PA249

Fieldworker

Goldberg, David

Date

• 1970

Publisher

Dictionary of American Regional English

Summary

• Informant Data:
• PA249: White; female; age: 80 (old); education: grade school; community type: village
• Media Files:
• Full Interview 1 (Tape 1458-S1).
• Content:
• 00:15 Personal history
• 01:35 Community description
• 02:40 Informant was a farmer
• 03:25 Informant belongs to Methodist Church—parents were plain people
• 04:55 Informant reads a poem he wrote
• 06:00 Changes in farming
• 06:20 First car Informant saw
• 07:05 Recreation—swimming, baseball, games
• 11:45 Family—size
• 12:30 Informant used to do public speaking
• 15:40 Local food
• 17:35 Fish caught locally
• 19:55 Local history
• 21:10 Family history
• 23:15 Pow-wowing, home remedies, old medicine
• 29:25 Breaking horses
• 32:55 Tape end
• Full Interview 2 (Tape 1458-S2).
• Content:
• 00:15 Parents wouldn’t allow sports on Sunday
• 02:00 Informant’s childhood home—remembers getting indoor plumbing
• 03:35 Description of making soap
• 04:35 Items Informant’s mother bought at the store
• 05:15 Food—canned vegetables, smoked meat, homemade bread, pies, cider
• 09:50 Source of ice—description of harvesting ice
• 12:05 Description of harvesting lumber
• 13:30 Job history—changes in retail stores—Informant worked in a store for 65 years
• 15:35 First airplane flight
• 16:15 Religion—United Brethren
• 20:50 Tape end