DARE Interview : Montrose, Pennsylvania; Primary Informant PA104

Fieldworker

Hausmann, Robert

Date

• 1968

Publisher

Dictionary of American Regional English

Summary

• Informant Data:
• PA104: White; male; age: 85 (old); education: high school; community type: village
• Media Files:
• Arthur the Rat. Speaker: PA104 (4:25)
• Full Interview 1 (Tape 1391-S1).
• Content:
• 00:35 [Fieldworker tells story]
• 02:30 Local man who sold fox pelts
• 03:45 Chipmunks, woodchucks
• 06:05 Community description—dirt roads, flagstone and wooden sidewalks, old toll house, plank roads
• 08:00 Lake Montrose, local streams run north, local creeks, trout stream
• 09:45 Corduroy roads
• 11:05 Community description—dairy farming
• 12:05 Local industries
• 13:40 Route of Susquehanna River
• 14:10 Local bridge [tape distortion begins]
• 18:30 Family history
• 23:35 Community description
• 25:50 Politics
• 28:30 Local history
• 29:50 Livery stables
• 31:20 Tape end
• Full Interview 2 (Tape 1391-S2).
• Content:
• 00:05 [distortion]
• 01:10 Clothing—styles, men’s and women’s clothes [tape distortion]
• 06:45 Job history [tape distortion]
• 12:35 Pranks
• 15:15 [Fieldworker tells reasons for reading Arthur the Rat]
• 15:40 Arthur the Rat
• 20:05 Tape end