DARE Interview : Clarington, Ohio; Primary Informant OH044

Fieldworker

Clark, Tom

Date

• 1968

Publisher

Dictionary of American Regional English

Summary

• Informant Data:
• OH044: White; male; age: 64 (old); education: college; community type: rural
• Media Files:
• Arthur the Rat. Speaker: OH044 (3:23)
• Full Interview (Tape 1235-S1).
• Content:
• 00:25 Arthur the Rat
• 05:40 Riverboat Museum—state owned, number of pictures of riverboats and steamboats museum has, description of other contents
• 07:40 Job history—clerk on a packetboat before becoming a teacher and a principal
• 04:35 Steam whistles and calliopes—described
• 12:10 Family history—building of his house, father's job history
• 13:55 Discussion of locks and dams on local rivers
• 15:05 Flood of 1913—height of water, effects on the Muskingum river
• 15:55 Personal hobbies—record collection, listens to radio communication between steamboats
• 19:05 Steamboat construction
• 20:15 Hobbies—steamboat whistle collection, binocular collection
• 22:45 Tape end