DARE Interview : Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania; Primary Informant PA242

Fieldworker

Goldberg, David

Date

• 1970

Publisher

Dictionary of American Regional English

Summary

• Informant Data:
• PA242: White; female; age: 70 (old); education: college; community type: village
• Media Files:
• Arthur the Rat. Speaker: PA242 (2:38)
• Full Interview (Tape 1455-S1).
• Content:
• 00:20 Personal history—parents farm
• 01:10 Pennsylvania Dutch food—recipes given
• 03:55 Informant was raised among plain people
• 04:50 Education—one-room school, Informant took high school entrance exam
• 08:40 Life on the farm—chores, electric lights, hired girl, thrashing hay
• 12:15 Food
• 12:55 Commercialization of Amish
• 15:15 Pow-wow doctors
• 19:55 Family history—grandparent’s background
• 25:00 Albadridges—description of the prank
• 25:50 Arthur the Rat
• 28:35 Tape end