DARE Interview : Fredericksburg, Texas; Primary Informant TX054

Fieldworker

Dwyer, Warren L.P.

Date

• 1968

Publisher

Dictionary of American Regional English

Summary

• Informant Data:
• TX054: White; male; age: 60 (old); education: grade school; community type: village
• Media Files:
• Arthur the Rat. Speaker: TX054 (3:18) [A bit echoey]
• Full Interview 1 (Tape 1649-S1).
• Content:
• 00:20 Arthur the Rat
• 03:40 [Reads history of local jails and sheriffs]
• 09:10 His father was sheriff; he became sheriff himself 1950 after career as pro and semi-pro baseball
• 10:30 Baseball players; baseball stories; childhood area teams
• 20:40 Family life in the past
• 22:25 Farming in past
• 27:40 Getting into pro baseball
• 29:20 Becoming sheriff
• 30:00 Tape end
• Full Interview 2 (Tape 1649-S2).
• Content:
• 00:05 Humorous story
• 01:30 [Reads article about his baseball career]
• 04:35 Sheriff work—gun use
• 06:05 [Looking at photos, reads from newspapers in English and German]
• 10:40 Family settled in area in 1846 from Germany; Irish grandfather from Canada
• 14:10 Law enforcement, jails
• 18:40 Tape end