DARE Interview : Milledgeville, Georgia; Primary Informant GA067

Fieldworker

Rentschler, Sally

Date

• 1968

Publisher

Dictionary of American Regional English

Summary

• Informant Data:
• GA067: White; female; age: 73 (old); education: college; community type: small city
• Media Files:
• Arthur the Rat. Speaker: GA067 (3:27)
• Full Interview (Tape 0324-S1). [Additional speakers: Adult female]
• Content:
• 00:15 Arthur the Rat
• 03:55 Informant reads a story by a friend about an old Black man speaking to a young White girl about the devil's fall from heaven
• 10:10 Woman who wrote story lived with Informant, worked for WPA showing poor Blacks how to do things ranging from cheesemaking to building a privy
• 16:30 Friend talking to an old Black woman; fun with her friends before the war
• 20:35 Black women went to Atlanta to see "Green Pastures," started performing as much of it as they could remember for churches
• 25:55 Various people in show going to "hell" or "heaven"
• 29:35 Tape end