DARE Interview : Jasper, Alabama; Primary Informant AL001

Fieldworker

Hausmann, Robert

Date

• 1966

Publisher

Dictionary of American Regional English

Summary

• Informant Data:
• AL001: Black; female; age: 61 (old); education: grade school; community type: small city
• Media Files:
• Arthur the Rat. Speaker: AL001 (4:50)
• Full Interview 1 (Tape 0001-S1). [Additional speakers: Fieldworker’s wife]
• Content:
• 00:25 Childhood home
• 03:50 Homemade soap
• 05:25 Bathwater, tubs
• 06:30 Bible verses in school
• 09:20 School in church, whippings
• 12:30 Cooking over open fire
• 14:30 Sowbelly, middlings, white meat
• 15:00 Making syrup from sugarcane
• 18:30 Making toothbrushes
• 19:20 Hominy, breakfast
• 21:10 Smokehouse
• 22:10 Canning
• 22:20 Church services
• 23:20 Furniture, house
• 25:45 Courting
• 26:35 Work, chores
• 29:15 Stove
• 30:00 Hunting
• 31:30 Chicken coops
• 32:20 Dances
• 33.20 Tape end
• Full Interview 2 (Tape 0001-S2). [Additional speakers: Fieldworker’s wife]
• Content:
• 00:10 Making tea from roots
• 01:40 Games
• 03:45 Cutting hay
• 04:55 Foot-a-night plant
• 06:05 Homemade medicines
• 11:00 Water from the spring
• 13:20 Washing clothes
• 15:00 Eating wild animals
• 16:50 Midwife
• 19:00 Funerals, casket boards, caskets
• 21:40 Wagons
• 24:40 Saturday afternoon in town
• 25:30 Shopping
• 27:05 Making candy
• 28:35 Arthur the Rat
• 33:55 Tape end