DARE Interview : Portage, Wisconsin; Primary Informant WI007

Fieldworker

Hausmann, Robert

Date

• 1968

Publisher

Dictionary of American Regional English

Summary

• Informant Data:
• WI007: White; male; age: 74 (old); education: college; community type: village
• Media Files:
• Full Interview (Tape 1764-S1).
• [Transcription available]
• Content:
• 00:30 Description of having a new well witched
• 08:00 Type of wood used to witch wells
• 13:05 Composition of local soil, local crops, divisions of towns into wards, construction of levees and dikes
• 17:50 Description of making pickles
• 19:45 Pickle diseases
• 21:25 Informant's company makes pickles, description
• 25:30 Discussion of pickers from Texas, wages, length of season
• 30:45 Tape end