DARE Interview : Mobile, Alabama; Primary Informant AL020

Fieldworker

Hausmann, Robert

Date

• 1967

Publisher

Dictionary of American Regional English

Summary

• Informant Data:
• AL020: White; female; age: 79 (old); education: high school; community type: large city
• Media Files:
• Full Interview 1 (Tape 0023-S1). [Additional speakers: Grandson of Informant]
• Content:
• 00:30 Describes schoolteacher
• 04:55 Telling stories
• 05:25 Copeland gang
• 07:00 Old houses of family
• 08:45 Union soldiers coming through during war
• 12:45 Her father's land and house
• 16:05 Corduroy road
• 18:30 Getting turpentine from trees
• 21:20 Rose comb lightwood
• 24:00 Grandfather first person in local cemetery
• 26:05 U.S. Civil War stories
• 27:35 Schoolhouse, school
• 31:55 Mother's family's homestead
• 32:35 Tape end
• Full Interview 2 (Tape 0023-S2). [Additional speakers: Grandson (about 22 years of age)]
• Content:
• 00:10 Hoecakes, fried pies, and "polliwogs"
• 03:55 French family in town
• 06:50 Uncle Walter moving to Seattle
• 08:50 Grandson running away West on motorcycle
• 11:35 Police sent to find runaway grandson, had lunch with officer who didn't catch him
• 13:50 Grandson ending trip, coming home
• 20:15 Fox hunting
• 23:45 Relations with local Blacks, friendships
• 28:00 Tape end