DARE Interview : Moore's Corner, Massachusetts; Primary Informant MA107

Fieldworker

Duckert, Audrey

Date

• 1967

Publisher

Dictionary of American Regional English

Summary

• Informant Data:
• MA005: White; female; age: 83 (old); education: college; community type: rural
• MA107: White; male; age: 75 (old); community type: rural
• MA108: White; female; community type: rural
• Media Files:
• Full Interview 1 (Tape 0898-S1). [Additional speakers: MA108, MA005]
• Content:
• [MA107 and MA108 with comments by MA005] 01:00 Family history
• 02:30 Family water-powered mills
• 05:45 Local people
• 07:30 Local history: house, nearby town, post offices
• 10:00 Family, local people, local store in the past
• 14:10 Local history: stores, peddlers, electric cars, trains
• 17:20 Local people
• 17:55 Local history: settlement, churches
• 18:50 Local people
• 21:00 Sawmills
• 28:05 Family house
• 29:05 School in the past
• 31:00 Local people
• 32:00 Tape end
• Full Interview 2 (Tape 0898-S2). [Additional speakers: MA108, MA005]
• Content:
• 00:05 Local people
• 02:45 Dances in the past, parties
• 05:50 Local people
• 06:30 Wedding custom—serenade
• 08:35 Dances and entertainments in the past, social gatherings
• 11:40 Sleigh rides
• 14:00 Horses
• 14:50 Logging in the past
• 17:30 Local people
• 20:40 Work as a postmistress, local post offices
• 22:20 Birthdays
• 22:50 Local people
• 23:10 Local dam in the past
• 25:25 Local businesses in the past
• 27:00 Fourth of July, Halloween, Decoration Day
• 28:50 Cemeteries
• 30:30 Fourth of July
• 32:00 Tape end
• Full Interview 3 (Tape 0899-S1). [Additional speakers: MA108, MA005]
• Content:
• 00:25 Local people in past: blacksmiths, constable, cabinetmakers
• 09:30 Vacation areas in mountains, sulphur springs (in the past)
• 12:30 Local history: mill, nearby town in the past
• 14:30 Local people
• 15:00 Roads and routes, rock ledges, local landmarks
• 24:50 Local person in past with folklore about him
• 25:45 Mowing with a scythe
• 26:50 Wildflowers
• 29:45 Tape end
• Full Interview 4 (Tape 0899-S2). [Additional speakers: MA108, MA005]
• Content:
• 00:05 Local people
• 05:55 Spiritualist community in the past
• 09:05 Family history
• 10:10 Logging: labor, use of sawdust, machinery
• 12:10 Spiritualist community in the past
• 20:50 Local history
• 22:45 Local people, family, general conversation
• 27:10 Tape end