DARE Interview : Queens, New York; Primary Informant NY055

Fieldworker

Greenberg, Iris

Date

• 1968

Publisher

Dictionary of American Regional English

Summary

• Informant Data:
• NY055: Black; female; age: 48 (middle-aged); education: high school; community type: urban
• Media Files:
• Arthur the Rat. Speaker: NY055 (4:50)
• Full Interview 1 (Tape 1102-S1). [Additional speakers: Informant's mother]
• Content:
• 00:25 Flushing in the past
• 02:20 Stores past and present
• 03:30 Transportation
• 04:30 Race relations in area in the past, schools
• 08:05 Ebenezer Baptist Church
• 10:00 Urban renewal, projects, effect on Black neighborhoods
• 11:30 Flushing in the past—meadows, fields, swamps, stream
• 13:45 Clothing in the past
• 16:25 Weather
• 16:55 Childhood games and play, toys
• 25:55 Family cars in the past; milk delivery in horse and wagon
• 27:40 Arthur the Rat [continued on side 2]
• 32:10 Tape end
• Full Interview 2 (Tape 1102-S2). [Additional speakers: Informant's mother]
• Content:
• 00:05 Arthur the Rat [continued]
• 01:05 Foods—family favorites
• 04:15 Subways past and present
• 06:35 Movies in the past
• 07:30 Tape end