DARE Interview : Berlin, New Hampshire; Primary Informant NH014

Fieldworker

Maki, Reino

Date

• 1968

Publisher

Dictionary of American Regional English

Summary

• Informant Data:
• NH014: White; male; age: 52 (middle-aged); education: grade school; community type: small city
• Media Files:
• Full Interview 1 (Tape 1006-S1).
• Content:
• 00:25 Logging: access roads, tree cutting and falling, hauling logs
• 18:10 Pulpwood mill
• 20:05 Sawmill—removal of bark
• 21:40 Peeling bark off pulpwood by hand tools in woods
• 23:45 Dangers of dead trees
• 25:35 Hauling logs by land and by water to mills
• 31:45 Tape end
• Full Interview 2 (Tape 1006-S2).
• Content:
• 00:05 Moving logs on water and on land, tools used
• 08:30 Names for logging jobs and people; riverboats used in logging; working on the river moving wood; ferry
• 17:30 Lumber camp life, clothing
• 20:40 Hooks named and described
• 22:10 Wages, food in camp, spending, working seasons, river ice
• 25:00 Potato farming: tools, planting, cultivating, harvesting
• 31:30 Tape end