DARE Interview : Whitney Point, New York; Primary Informant NY234

Fieldworker

Goldberg, David

Date

• 1970

Publisher

Dictionary of American Regional English

Summary

• Informant Data:
• NY234: White; female; age: 50 (middle-aged); education: high school; community type: village
• Media Files:
• Arthur the Rat. Speaker: NY234 (2:38)
• Full Interview 1 (Tape 1194-S1).
• Content:
• 00:50 Custard pies [recipes]
• 03:40 Local person
• 08:40 Personal philosophy
• 10:35 Farm life in her mother's time
• 14:30 Her mother's interests and character
• 18:35 Food and cooking of her mother's
• 25:05 Herbal remedies
• 26:40 Family
• 29:30 Soapmaking, cleaning
• 31:35 Parents, childraising
• 32:45 Tape end
• Full Interview 2 (Tape 1194-S2).
• Content:
• 00:05 Foods her mother made
• 01:40 Father and mother, childhood, pets, farm animals, grandmother, brother's death in father's sawmill
• 12:00 Depression 1930s
• 14:25 Employment from age 15
• 17:55 Childhood, family life, childraising
• 21:00 Grandchildren
• 22:30 Arthur the Rat
• 25:10 Her parents, her father's stories
• 26:45 Tape end