DARE Interview : Brownsville, Texas; Primary Informant TX031

Fieldworker

Boyd, Donald

Date

• 1967

Publisher

Dictionary of American Regional English

Summary

• Informant Data:
• TX031: White; male; age: 74 (old); education: high school; community type: small city
• Media Files:
• Arthur the Rat. Speaker: TX031 (3:47)
• Full Interview 1 (Tape 1617-S1).
• Content:
• 00:15 Local people in the past
• 05:00 Events at Fort Brown in Mexican Revolutionary period
• 09:00 He had a grocery on property in town his grandfather bought in 1849
• 10:00 Local events in Mexican Revolutionary period
• 18:40 Catholic priests in parish in Chicago where his father had a drugstore
• 33:30 Tape end
• Full Interview 2 (Tape 1617-S2).
• Content:
• 00:05 Father's pharmacy business license in California
• 02:40 Mother died when he was young, came from Chicago to live with grandparents and uncles in Brownsville
• 04:40 Local people
• 07:25 County history
• 09:40 School
• 11:55 [Interrupted story, unfinished]
• 12:45 School play
• 15:20 DARE Questionnaire H (Foods) [partial] [includes digressions]
• 25:20 Baseball story
• 26:20 Currency and banking locally in the past, local banker
• 33:50 Tape end
• Full Interview 3 (Tape 1618-S1). [Additional speakers: Adult female]
• Content:
• 00:05 Baseball stories
• 12:10 Food [DARE QR I]
• 13:00 Salt Lake City, Mormons
• 14:55 Work for Public Health Service in quarantines and bracero camps, migrant farm labor
• 23:15 Pigs; military funeral music
• 25:50 Fort Brown history—U.S. Civil War period
• 28:55 Diseases [DARE QR BB]
• 32:10 Tape end
• Full Interview 4 (Tape 1618-S2).
• Content:
• 00:05 Local people, local history
• 04:50 Curandero [healer]
• 10:30 Finding bones of Mexican soldiers
• 11:30 DARE Questionnaire EE
• 17:10 Story about a boxing match
• 18:15 DARE Questionnaire FF (Entertainment and Celebrations)
• 27:30 Loud person
• 32:10 Tape end
• Full Interview 5 (Tape 1619-S1).
• Content:
• 00:05 Diego Rivera mural
• 02:15 Local people
• 07:15 Bidding for deposit funds in the bank, bond
• 13:05 Local people
• 14:35 Arthur the Rat
• 18:25 Tape end