DARE Interview : Lebanon, Connecticut; Primary Informant CT036

Fieldworker

Goldberg, David

Date

• 1969

Publisher

Dictionary of American Regional English

Summary

• Informant Data:
• CT036: White; male; age: 71 (old); community type: rural
• Media Files:
• Arthur the Rat. Speaker: CT036 (3:31)
• Full Interview 1 (Tape 0214-S1). [Additional speakers: Adult female, Male child?]
• Content:
• 00:35 Frog sounds; rattlesnakes will fight black snakes, but will also sneak into their burrows to hibernate
• 04:05 His impressionable youth—discovering about padded bills, buying a tall tale about milking out West
• 08:15 Traveling with family, favorite restaurants
• 13:00 His theory of Jews and where their stereotype came from
• 15:50 Looking over his Indian artifacts: drills, knives, arrowheads. Explains barbed wire ones
• 23:00 Old town records show how terms for illegitimate children, poorhouse change over time
• 27:00 What county home provided when he was a child. Being bound out to a farmer
• 31:00 School requirements, lumber industry
• 34:05 Tape end
• Full Interview 2 (Tape 0214-S2). [Additional speakers: Adult female]
• Content:
• 00:05 Growing up with couple in their 70s. Man was a Baptist deacon, good man.
• 03:25 Arguing with the old man, and then later admitting that he was wrong; lessons he learned.
• 07:10 Entertainment—driving out to sell heifers and lounge by spring; watching blacksmith
• 11:10 Shops in town, untangling string for broom factory. Town was bigger in 1780 than now
• 16:00 Describes an old town wit
• 17:55 Arthur the Rat
• 21:35 Overhear women talking about water, typing
• 23:05 Chasing pigs, driving behind National Guard
• 24:55 Tape end