DARE Interview : Timberville, Virginia; Primary Informant VA030

Fieldworker

Huizenga, Sharon

Date

• 1968

Publisher

Dictionary of American Regional English

Summary

• Informant Data:
• VA030: White; female; age: 69 (old); education: college; community type: rural
• Media Files:
• Arthur the Rat. Speaker: VA030 (3:07)
• Full Interview (Tape 1694-S1).
• Content:
• 00:35 Arthur the Rat
• 03:50 Ancestors came in 1760; town was crossroads and trading place
• 07:20 Town now has new homes, new highway, museum in battlefield
• 11:05 Agriculture in the county—fruit, poultry
• 13:30 Settlement of county from the north, German, Scots Irish
• 15:35 Her house built 1800s
• 18:30 Old houses on farms vacant, absentee owners
• 20:45 Tape end