DARE Interview : Port Clinton, Ohio; Primary Informant OH068

Fieldworker

Clark, Tom

Date

• 1968

Publisher

Dictionary of American Regional English

Summary

• Informant Data:
• OH068: White; male; age: 67 (old); education: college; community type: village
• Media Files:
• Arthur the Rat. Speaker: OH068 (3:16)
• Full Interview (Tape 1255-S1).
• Content:
• 00:25 Arthur the Rat
• 03:50 Family history—six generations of father's family—marriages, children, military service, slave holding, land purchase. Story of mother's relative b. 1490 in England
• 14:40 Johnson's Island—Confederate prison
• 16:10 Battle of Lake Erie—Commodore Perry
• 18:00 Local lighthouses—Marblehead
• 20:45 Lake Erie—description, difference between Erie and Huron, proposed dredging in Michigan with sludge to be dumped into Lake Erie, attempts being made to stop the dredging
• 31:45 Tape end