DARE Interview : Gill, Massachusetts; Primary Informant MA030

Fieldworker

Zink, Joan

Date

• 1969

Publisher

Dictionary of American Regional English

Summary

• Informant Data:
• MA030: White; male; age: 73 (old); education: high school; community type: village
• Media Files:
• Arthur the Rat. Speaker: MA030 (3:54) [Reading occurs on Full Interview, MA029 (Tape 0838-S1)]
• Full Interview 1 (Tape 0839-S1).
• Content:
• 00:30 Folklore
• 02:00 Glacial land formations locally
• 11:35 New England authors
• 16:00 New York/New England financiers
• 19:50 New England writers and writing
• 23:55 Depression years [1930s]
• 26:35 Economic trends
• 28:00 Tape end
• Full Interview 2 (Tape 0839-S2).
• Content:
• 00:05 Hurricane of 1938, storms
• 06:50 Chestnut tree blight, lumber economy (past)
• 08:45 Sheep, wool economy (past)
• 10:40 Local people in past, tobacco-growing economy (past)
• 12:20 Roads in the past
• 13:30 Train route
• 14:25 Folklore
• 15:25 Medicine in past
• 16:20 Tape end