DARE Interview : Tuscaloosa, Alabama; Primary Informant AL014
- Informant Data:
- AL014: Black; female; age: 39 (young); education: grade school; community type: small city
- Media Files:
- Arthur the Rat. Speaker: AL014 (8:13) [Some mechanical clicking sounds in background]
- Full Interview 1 (Tape 0016-S1).
- [Transcription available]
- Content:
- 00:25 Carrying lunch to school in a pail
- 03:10 Making corn bread in legged skillet
- 03:50 Cooking with wood stove, cleaning it, hot water tank in later stove
- 07:20 Rooms of house; heating house
- 09:10 Little brothers, parents' jobs
- 11:00 Making syrup
- 13:45 Helping with cotton
- 16:30 Old food prices, what they ate
- 18:40 Butchering hogs
- 21:05 Sharing food with neighbors
- 24:10 Playing with White children, community
- 27:35 Church
- 29:10 Preacher
- 30:55 Tape end
- Full Interview 2 (Tape 0016-S2).
- Content:
- 00:10 Arthur the Rat
- 08:45 Tape end
- Full Interview 3 (Tape 0017-S1).
- Content:
- 00:40 Brushing teeth with a stick
- 01:55 Naming things in rooms—living room
- 07:35 Pictures of birds on wall
- 08:20 Hallway
- 09:55 Front bedroom
- 11:25 Mildew problems
- 12:55 Redbugs
- 14:05 Sewing machines
- 15:20 Boys' bedroom, gas heaters
- 17:10 Bathroom furnishings
- 23:10 Kitchen
- 24:00 Cooking utensils
- 26:55 Washing machine
- 27:45 Canning berries
- 31:30 Tape end
- Full Interview 4 (Tape 0017-S2).
- Content:
- 00:10 Canning, continued
- 02:45 Freezing peaches
- 03:20 Apple jelly, also blackberry, pear, or peach jelly
- 06:35 Preserving peas and corn, blanching, okra slightly different
- 09:30 Pear preserves, freezing apples
- 12:35 Funerals—her experience
- 16:10 Funerals—what happened at one
- 20:05 What she grows in the garden
- 24:15 Fertilizer
- 26:10 Watering garden
- 27:10 Dancing in summers as child
- 28:50 Going to the park
- 30:20 Memories of Pearl Harbor
- 31:45 Tape end
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Arthur the rat
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Hausmann, Robert
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- Dictionary of American Regional English
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