DARE Interview : Westhampton, Massachusetts; Primary Informant MA086

Fieldworker

Duckert, Audrey

Date

• 1966

Publisher

Dictionary of American Regional English

Summary

• Informant Data:
• MA086: White; male; community type: rural
• MA086A: White; female; community type: rural
• Media Files:
• Full Interview 1 (Tape 0876-S1). [Additional speakers: MA086A]
• Content:
• 00:30 Family history
• 03:30 Local farms
• 04:05 Family home
• 06:00 Dutch oven
• 07:40 Cider making
• 11:30 Local basket makers
• 13:25 Cider making
• 22:15 Apple varieties
• 23:30 Family history
• 25:55 Chestnuts: trees, blight, growing chestnuts, cooking chestnuts
• 31:55 Tape end
• Full Interview 2 (Tape 0876-S2). [Additional speakers: MA086A, Adult female]
• Content:
• 00:10 Chestnuts
• 01:30 Carpentry
• 08:20 Local people in past
• 16:05 Local history
• 17:25 Houses, family home construction (206 years old)
• 23:35 [Silence to end of side]
• 29:25 Tape end
• Full Interview 3 (Tape 0877-S1). [Additional speakers: MA086A, Adult female]
• Content:
• [MA086, MA086A, and Aux. Informant all speak throughout] 00:40 Cider making [taped on the scene of the apple pressing]
• 15:15 Tape end
• Full Interview 4 (Tape 0878-S1). [Additional speakers: MA086A, Brother of MA086]
• Content:
• [This tape recorded in 1967. MA086 and MA086A speak throughout. Brother of MA086 joins at 24:40] 00:50 DARE Questionnaire D (Houses) [includes lengthy responses and conversation]
• 24:40 General conversation: churches, cemeteries, nearby towns, driving
• 32:05 Tape end
• Full Interview 5 (Tape 0878-S2). [Additional speakers: MA086A, Brother of MA086]
• Content:
• [This tape recorded in 1967] 00:05 Local history: stone quarry
• 01:00 Tools in the past: whetstones, scythes, flail
• 03:30 Maple syrup making, making sugar
• 09:35 Maple sugar eat (party)
• 12:10 Weather: winter (past and present)
• 14:25 Sleighs and sleds, oxen teams
• 18:20 Logging locally (past and present)
• 20:30 Chestnuts: trees, nuts, wood, blight ca. 1918
• 25:45 Timber trees locally (past and present)
• 28:05 Sawmills
• 29:25 Logging—saws in past, local logging
• 32:05 Tape end
• Full Interview 6 (Tape 0879-S1). [Additional speakers: Informant's brother]
• Content:
• [This tape recorded in 1967] 00:40 Sawmills
• 03:40 Logging
• 06:10 Lumber
• 08:50 Logging
• 10:20 Local fires
• 12:30 Local place names, original families
• 15:20 Floods
• 17:50 Bridges
• 19:10 Roads
• 24:45 Tape end