DARE Interview : Uxbridge, Massachusetts; Primary Informant MA074

Fieldworker

Zink, Joan

Date

• 1970

Publisher

Dictionary of American Regional English

Summary

• Informant Data:
• MA074: White; male; age: 75 (old); education: grade school; community type: rural
• Media Files:
• Arthur the Rat. Speaker: MA074 (3:37)
• Full Interview 1 (Tape 0871-S1).
• Content:
• 00:35 Arthur the Rat
• 04:15 Sports—professional teams, sports on television
• 07:15 Travel versus staying at home
• 09:00 Farm life: dairy deliveries in the past
• 10:35 Contemporary life, television
• 15:00 World War II, Vietnam War, media coverage of Vietnam War
• 18:40 Farming: dairy delivery in the past
• 22:45 Farming: dairy, crops, labor, economics, marketing
• 31:15 Tape end
• Full Interview 2 (Tape 0871-S2).
• Content:
• 00:10 Farming: produce marketing, decline of small farms, local farmer
• 10:50 Local people
• 12:50 Farming: dairy cows, tuberculosis testing of cows ca. 1945
• 16:10 Tape end