DARE Interview : Jacksonville, Florida; Primary Informant FL015

Fieldworker

Porter, Ruth

Date

• 1966

Publisher

Dictionary of American Regional English

Summary

• Informant Data:
• FL015: White; male; age: 66 (old); education: college; community type: large city
• Media Files:
• Arthur the Rat. Speaker: FL015 (2:54)
• Full Interview 1 (Tape 0250-S1).
• Content:
• 00:25 Fishing in river from a "yacht-club dory"; porpoise encounter; motorboats supplant sailing
• 05:40 Catching crabs with bait; extent of river; catching spawning shad
• 09:40 Different types of local fishing from catfish to sport; freshwater stream offshore
• 13:35 Most recent hurricane flooded a lot, but didn't hit them with wind
• 16:40 Wonderful weather, snow very rare. Palm trees grow well, citrus occasionally gets frozen
• 20:00 Different ways to try to warm citrus trees
• 22:30 Naming of Jacksonville for Andrew Jackson, who was never there. Incorporated before U.S. Civil War
• 26:15 Land boom followed by bust and then Depression; farming always a solid moneymaker
• 30:45 Tape end
• Full Interview 2 (Tape 0250-S2).
• Content:
• 00:15 Describes small-town bank that couldn't afford to take in all the money people were making; soil and effects of draining Everglades
• 03:30 Arthur the Rat
• 06:25 Tape end