DARE Interview : Weed, California; Primary Informant CA144

Fieldworker

Anderson, Leslie

Date

• 1969

Publisher

Dictionary of American Regional English

Summary

• Informant Data:
• CA144: White; female; age: 86 (old); education: grade school; community type: village
• Media Files:
• Arthur the Rat. Speaker: CA144 (4:22)
• Full Interview (Tape 0130-S1). [Additional speakers: Fieldworker’s sister]
• Content:
• 00:35 Arthur the Rat
• 05:10 Lemurians living on Mt. Shasta, buying groceries secretly with nuggets. Informant had been told that her father was one
• 09:45 Mt. Shasta—fears from Lassen eruption, skiing in winter
• 12:25 Learning to ski, sister dying of typhoid. Medical care in the old days
• 15:45 Relative going to Germany. Informant's Irish background
• 19:00 Father's house burning, rebuilding, that one burned down recently
• 22:10 Selling timber, hiking in mountains; monument that her father helped to build atop Mt. Shasta
• 26:30 Scenery in area, dealing with Jehovah's Witnesses
• 33:00 Tape end