DARE Interview : Lynchburg, Virginia; Primary Informant VA097

Fieldworker

Miller, Jill

Date

• 1970

Publisher

Dictionary of American Regional English

Summary

• Informant Data:
• VA097: White; male; age: 68 (old); education: grade school; community type: small city
• Media Files:
• Arthur the Rat. Speaker: VA097 (3:55) [Background noise]
• Full Interview (Tape 1717-S1).
• Content:
• 00:15 Arthur the Rat
• 04:10 Race relations, crime
• 12:20 National Council of Churches involvement in demonstration, Methodist Church
• 15:00 Local person
• 16:00 Came to Lynchburg from Nelson county at 16, opened auto business 1929
• 19:50 Local people, opinions on poor people, Vietnam War, subsidies for Puerto Rico, farm subsidies
• 24:10 Tape end