DARE Interview : Dothan, Alabama; Primary Informant AL015

Fieldworker

Hausmann, Robert

Date

• 1967

Publisher

Dictionary of American Regional English

Summary

• Informant Data:
• AL015: White; female; age: 63 (old); education: grade school; community type: small city
• Media Files:
• Arthur the Rat. Speaker: AL015 (3:23)
• Full Interview 1 (Tape 0018-S1).
• Content:
• 00:35 Arthur the Rat
• 04:00 Tape end
• Full Interview 2 (Tape 0019-S1).
• Content:
• 00:35 Cooking in fireplace
• 02:20 Preserving food
• 03:10 Schoolhouse
• 07:00 Curing meat
• 08:40 Syrup making
• 10:35 Silver sugar dish
• 11:55 Blacksmith shop
• 14:15 Social gatherings, Christmas and serenades
• 16:55 "Protracted" church meetings
• 19:15 Community, where Informant has lived
• 20:40 Stove, community
• 23:55 Mother's family
• 24:30 Her house
• 25:50 Antiques
• 29:10 Plantations
• 31:10 Black tenants
• 32:55 Fertilizer
• 34:30 Tape end
• Full Interview 3 (Tape 0019-S2).
• Content:
• 00:20 Old clothing
• 01:35 Houses Informant lived in, house styles
• 06:00 Dairy cattle, making butter by hand and with electric churn
• 12:00 Trees in Alabama and Georgia, tree farming and logging
• 14:55 Stylish flowers
• 17:45 Parental discipline, getting in trouble with her mother
• 20:45 Feed sack dresses
• 22:40 Christmas presents, toys
• 24:05 Cotton picking by machine, fertilizing fields
• 25:30 Indoor plumbing vs. outhouse
• 29:20 High prices, bargain hunting
• 30:50 Dealing with accumulation of belongings, unnecessary purchases
• 34:35 Tape end