DARE Interview : Milton, Florida; Primary Informant FL042

Fieldworker

Porter, Ruth

Date

• 1965

Publisher

Dictionary of American Regional English

Summary

• Informant Data:
• FL042: White; male; age: 85 (old); education: some schooling; community type: village
• Media File:
• Full Interview (Tape 0277-S1).
• Content:
• 00:25 Worked as a contractor and in automobile business. As health failed, became a supervisor. Rebuilt town after a fire
• 06:00 Man who set fire—basement full of roofing tar, too smoky to fight fire
• 10:10 Forcing city to pave its roads, laying the brick (mostly by one man) and pouring cement over it
• 15:30 Creosoted pine used for wooden paving bricks. Sawmills denuding forests
• 20:40 Timber companies and government are now busily planting trees
• 24:50 Paper mill. Fiber plant making synthetic clothing yarns
• 30:30 New pine goes to paper mill. Stumps going to a tar plant by the trainload. Cypress logs in building
• 33:55 Tape end