DARE Interview : Malden, Massachusetts; Primary Informant MA121

Fieldworker

Sheinhait, Lois

Date

• 1966

Publisher

Dictionary of American Regional English

Summary

• Informant Data:
• MA121: White; female; community type: small city
• Media Files:
• Full Interview 1 (Tape 0911-S1).
• Content:
• 00:10 Family history
• 02:50 Local history—businesses, development, schools
• 04:20 Personal history—World War II volunteer work
• 05:35 Local history
• 06:10 Entertainment in the past, trips to Boston
• 09:35 First radios, phonographs, telephone, electricity, gaslight
• 11:25 Home remedies in the past
• 12:20 Childhood jobs
• 14:00 School in the past; YMCA
• 14:55 Local history—industry, development, urban renewal
• 19:55 Home remedies in the past
• 21:30 Life in the past—dances, clothes, food
• 24:00 Family history
• 25:50 Historical events
• 29:00 First automobiles
• 30:55 Family
• 31:15 Visit of President Taft
• 31:55 Holidays and celebrations—Fourth of July, Memorial Day, Halloween
• 33:10 Tape end
• Full Interview 2 (Tape 0911-S2).
• Content:
• 00:05 Halloween, Christmas
• 00:55 Visits to Boston, Boston neighborhood, urban renewal
• 06:40 Young Men's Hebrew Association; local person
• 11:25 Family history: grandparents, parents, immigration from Hungary and Russia
• 18:20 Life in the past: shoes, clothing
• 21:10 Jewish holidays, synagogues, Passover customs, High Holidays, Hanukkah, religious ceremonies
• 33:10 Tape end