DARE Interview : Garberville, California; Primary Informant CA100

Fieldworker

Lee, Mary

Date

• 1968

Publisher

Dictionary of American Regional English

Summary

• Informant Data:
• CA100: White; male; age: 86 (old); education: grade school; community type: rural
• CA101: White; female; age: 74 (old); education: grade school; community type: rural
• Media Files:
• Arthur the Rat. Speaker: CA101 (4:31) [Incomplete, last two words ("for him") cut off]
• Full Interview 1 (Tape 0117-S1). [Additional speakers: CA101]
• Content:
• 00:20 Arthur the Rat (CA101)
• 05:30 CA100—Family comes to CA in '49 with gold rush
• 08:30 Working in lumber business with steam engines
• 12:00 Humboldt in old days—no roads, no railroad, dairy business big then
• 15:25 Did grammar school in two years at age 18
• 20:35 Learned Spanish to go to Panama, but never went
• 22:50 Railroad worker, first auto he ever saw
• 25:20 Trapping martens in Oregon, deer hunting in CA, fishing
• 29:00 Net fishing in Oregon, catching abalones
• 32:25 Tape end
• Full Interview 2 (Tape 0117-S2).
• Content:
• 00:20 Friend almost killed cutting redwoods for railroad ties
• 06:10 Describes redwoods he cut for Park Service at local tourist center
• 09:40 Fort Ross and seal hunting
• 11:45 Family coming to area
• 14:55 Floods destroying area
• 16:40 Trees are now all timbered out
• 22:15 Politics
• 27:20 What Informant thinks of Blacks, where his family lives
• 30:25 Southern California when it was all empty
• 31:20 Tape end