DARE Interview : New Hope, Pennsylvania; Primary Informant PA127

Fieldworker

Hausmann, Robert

Date

• 1968

Publisher

Dictionary of American Regional English

Summary

• Informant Data:
• PA127: White; male; age: 83 (old); education: high school; community type: rural
• Media Files:
• Full Interview 1 (Tape 1401-S1).
• Content:
• 00:55 Life in the past—price of bread
• 02:05 Population of New Hope
• 03:20 Capital gains tax
• 06:25 Pesticides used by Informant, type of weeds that grow, best time to apply pesticides, types of weeds that kill corn
• 13:10 Number of pheasants and deer around
• 15:50 3 people recently escaped from local prison—discussion about need to find suspects
• 19:00 Politics—presidential elections
• 24:30 Canal—number of boats, goods, name of company, mules, source of water, reason for having two canals
• 30:55 Type of stone quarried locally
• 31:50 Local fertilizer mill
• 32:15 Tape end
• Full Interview 2 (Tape 1401-S2).
• Content:
• 00:50 Canals in winter—where mules and boats went, people skated and caught muskrats
• 03:05 Salary of teachers
• 04:45 Money—economic problems, cost of hiring workers
• 07:00 Local people with money troubles
• 10:05 Discussion of how to avoid paying taxes—examples of people who sold their land to utility companies
• 14:20 Cost of repairs today
• 15:00 Local people—with a sloppy farm, trash everywhere
• 18:05 Coins
• 19:15 Cheap labor—American worker’s demands
• 22:05 Job history—made airplanes, description of his boss
• 29:20 Personal philosophy
• 30:05 Pets
• 32:15 Tape end