DARE Interview : East Hampton, Connecticut; Primary Informant CT012

Fieldworker

Krichels, Hans

Date

• 1968

Publisher

Dictionary of American Regional English

Summary

• Informant Data:
• CT012: White; female; age: 70 (old); education: grade school; community type: village
• Media Files:
• Arthur the Rat. Speaker: CT012 (3:39) [Beginning is recorded too fast; slight distortion, high whistle]
• Full Interview (Tape 0202-S1).
• Content:
• 00:20 Collecting pitchers and buttons. Displays buttons in antique frames, belongs to two button clubs.
• 07:45 Collecting at State Button Club meetings. Describes story buttons from old opera capes
• 11:35 Friend's button museum and collection
• 13:00 Organizations she belongs to. Town's history as a "bell town" where bells were made
• 16:45 Family involvement in bell business, history of family in area
• 20:25 Changes in town, factories changing hands. Has only been in her house for two years. Swamp Yankees
• 25:40 Arthur the Rat
• 29:50 Tape end