DARE Interview : Athens, Georgia; Primary Informant GA013

Fieldworker

Lampman, Michael

Date

• 1966

Publisher

Dictionary of American Regional English

Summary

• Informant Data:
• GA013: White; male; age: 60 (old); education: high school; community type: small city
• Media Files:
• Arthur the Rat. Speaker: GA013 (5:25) [Poor; moderate distortion, lots of room echo; Informant slurs, is very hard to understand]
• Full Interview 1 (Tape 0299-S1).
• Content:
• 00:15 Game which seems like both baseball and tag. Marble games with holes or ring. In hole game you try to get marble in a hole without getting knocked away
• 08:35 Steel marbles (ball bearings) led to fights over broken marbles. Rules to ring game
• 12:35 Things to argue over while playing marbles (fudging, steel marbles)
• 14:20 Foundation of University of Georgia. Athens as a major inland cotton market
• 19:00 Unique but totally unusable double cannon. Napoleon tree in Botanical Gardens
• 24:55 Paper company; sheriffs of the area—only seven executions over the years
• 29:35 Local manufacturing, use of town for professional baseball teams' spring training
• 33:05 Tape end
• Full Interview 2 (Tape 0299-S2).
• Content:
• 00:05 Early veterinarian school; professors who figured out paper from pulpwood, and dog repellent for mailmen. Cultural center
• 06:50 Wide range of stars performing in Athens, including Will Rogers. Recollections of Rogers' visit (Informant was stage manager at theater)
• 10:50 Tricks played by Rogers, and his stay in hotel where Informant worked
• 14:30 Great musicians who appeared in town, including Sousa's band. Great evangelists who preached there over the years
• 20:50 More evangelists. Bible scholar who lived and taught in town
• 24:00 Arthur the Rat
• 29:25 Tape end