DARE Interview : Basinger, Florida; Primary Informant FL036

Fieldworker

Porter, Ruth

Date

• 1966

Publisher

Dictionary of American Regional English

Summary

• Informant Data:
• FL036: White; male; age: 72 (old); education: grade school; community type: rural
• FL036A: White; female; age: 68 (old); education: grade school; community type: rural
• Media Files:
• Arthur the Rat. Speaker: FL036A (4:57)
• Full Interview 1 (Tape 0271-S1). [Additional speakers: FL036A (Wife of FL036)]
• Content:
• 00:20 Rounding up hogs to vaccinate them with county agents
• 06:25 What hogs were like, what they grew, building a log house to live in when married
• 08:35 Life in Basinger School when wife was a child; she describes the teachers, seeing first automobile
• 14:25 Making lard, one hog would feed a family for close to a year. Raising rice, using cracklins from making lard
• 19:10 Making cottage cheese, butter; moss-filled beds; making their own furniture and buying flour at country store
• 23:40 Splitting rails, why Basinger is an island (bounded by rivers and swamp)
• 27:45 Working for cattlemen to round up cattle on range, camping for weeks
• 31:40 Day started well before dawn, worked with cattle all day
• 34:10 Tape end
• Full Interview 2 (Tape 0271-S2). [Additional speakers: FL036A (Wife of FL036)]
• Content:
• 00:10 Palm-frond bed on roundup. Horses and dogs bitten by rattlesnake die some of the time
• 05:50 Killing bears and panthers in the area, a buck in a palmetto patch
• 09:25 Salting and smoking pork and beef, making sausage by hand. Hog's head cheese
• 14:50 Hand-washing clothes, milking half-wild range cows with a pole to immobilize them
• 20:30 Camping while tending to hogs. Using well that he dug
• 26:50 Arthur the Rat (read by FL036A)
• 31:55 Getting mail with their Model T and killing two deer
• 34:10 Tape end