DARE Interview : Columbia, North Carolina; Primary Informant NC020

Fieldworker

Porter, Ruth

Date

• 1966

Publisher

Dictionary of American Regional English

Summary

• Informant Data:
• NC020: White; female; age: 75 (old); education: 6th grade; community type: rural
• Media Files:
• Arthur the Rat. Speaker: NC020 (1:46) [Incomplete]
• Full Interview (Tape 0950-S1).
• Content:
• 00:20 Family history, personal history: hotel business beginnings
• 04:30 Roads and cars in the past (ca. 1910); transportation
• 09:10 Selling cars (beginning with Model T)
• 14:45 Hotel business, real estate (ca. 1930s-1950s)
• 17:00 Water supply and plumbing in the past
• 18:00 Hotel business, hotel construction (ca. 1945)
• 21:45 Local history: housing locally in the past
• 22:30 Produce business; produce shipping; potatoes
• 26:10 Store business; hatmaking business
• 30:30 Arthur the Rat [part only]
• 32:20 Tape end