DARE Interview : Cisco, Texas; Primary Informant TX040

Fieldworker

Boyd, Donald

Date

• 1967

Publisher

Dictionary of American Regional English

Summary

• Informant Data:
• TX040: White; female; age: 80 (old); education: grade school; community type: rural
• Media Files:
• Arthur the Rat. Speaker: TX040 (8:03) [Incomplete, first few seconds of Arthur are missing; fair amount of tape hiss and machine hum]
• Full Interview 1 (Tape 1627-S1).
• Content:
• 00:15 DARE Questionnaire EE (Children's Games)
• 20:10 DARE Questionnaire FF (Entertainments and Celebrations)
• 28:40 Butchering hogs—killing, scalding, cutting up, rendering lard
• 32:15 Tape end
• Full Interview 2 (Tape 1627-S2).
• Content:
• 00:10 Cooking with lard, homemade soap
• 03:00 Washing clothes in the past
• 04:20 DARE Questionnaire JJ (School going, Mental actions)
• 14:10 Meat, biscuits, yeast baking, cornbreads
• 20:30 Curing bacon, breakfast foods, fruit preserves
• 22:25 Cobbler making
• 24:05 DARE Questionnaire JJ (School going, Mental actions)
• 30:10 Arthur the Rat (first part)
• 32:15 Tape end
• Full Interview 3 (Tape 1628-S1).
• Content:
• 00:15 Arthur the Rat [continued from previous tape]
• 06:20 Tape end