DARE Interview : Oxford, Alabama; Primary Informant AL011

Fieldworker

Hausmann, Robert

Date

• 1966

Publisher

Dictionary of American Regional English

Summary

• Informant Data:
• AL011: Black; male; age: 83 (old); community type: village
• Media Files:
• Full Interview 1 (Tape 0013-S1).
• Content:
• 00:23 First house, family
• 01:30 First work in fields, clearing land
• 02:40 Family does own butchering, gets by on farming
• 04:20 Picking cotton
• 08:00 Bartering for store goods
• 08:50 Food, making syrup
• 11:20 Houses lived in
• 12:15 Church, camp meetings, music
• 14:50 Preachers
• 16:25 Teachers
• 17:35 Plowing
• 19:05 Pipe company arrives in Anniston
• 20:40 Christmas candy
• 21:30 Cracklins and chitlins
• 22:40 Grave-digging, burial customs
• 26:50 Field singing
• 28:35 Tape end
• Full Interview 2 (Tape 0013-S2).
• Content:
• 00:15 Cutting wood, splitting rails
• 01:30 Names for beds
• 02:40 Tape end