DARE Interview : Davis Station, South Carolina; Primary Informant SC024

Fieldworker

O'Cain, Raymond

Date

• 1966

Publisher

Dictionary of American Regional English

Summary

• Informant Data:
• SC024: White; female; age: 83 (old); education: high school; community type: rural
• Media Files:
• Arthur the Rat. Speaker: SC024 (4:50)
• Full Interview 1 (Tape 1494-S1).
• Content:
• 00:15 Local people
• 02:05 Racial integration
• 03:15 Family history: parents, Depression late 1800s, the Depression in 1930s; World War II rationing; they owned a store; children, brother
• 09:20 Life in the past: boys serenaded girls; weddings
• 12:45 Barbecues
• 16:05 Earthquake in 1886
• 12:25 Railroads, train service
• 21:10 Local history: town started as a railway station; sawmill; store; loggers; cottonseed oil mill
• 25:15 Family life, childhood—prayers
• 26:25 Tobacco growing
• 31:30 Cotton growing
• 32:05 Tape end
• Full Interview 2 (Tape 1494-S2).
• Content:
• 00:05 Cotton growing
• 04:00 School in the past, school free only part of the year
• 09:10 Lakes and streams
• 11:55 Cornbreads
• 19:20 Soapmaking
• 20:35 Boiled peanuts
• 23:20 Arthur the Rat
• 28:10 Family—children, grandchildren
• 30:50 Personal philosophy
• 32:00 Tape end