DARE Interview : Colrain, Massachusetts; Primary Informant MA117

Fieldworker

Duckert, Audrey

Date

• 1967

Publisher

Dictionary of American Regional English

Summary

• Informant Data:
• MA005: White; female; age: 83 (old); education: college; community type: rural
• MA117: White; female; age: 91 (old); community type: village
• Media Files:
• Full Interview 1 (Tape 0907-S1). [Additional speakers: MA005]
• Content:
• 00:45 Family history
• 04:15 Weaving palm leaf hats for sale by peddlers
• 09:15 Cooking in the past—spices
• 10:20 Local school, local person
• 11:15 Personal history: marriage, farm work
• 13:10 Oxen and horses for travel and on the farm
• 15:00 1888 Blizzard
• 18:25 Snow plowing and snow packing on roads in the past
• 21:05 Farm life in the past: corn, milling, hominy, maple syrup and sugar, childhood chores
• 30:10 Dairy farming, chickens, cheese making, homemade yeast, wild hops used in yeast making, food storage
• 37:00 Tape end
• Full Interview 2 (Tape 0907-S2). [Additional speakers: MA005]
• Content:
• 00:05 Food storage in the past
• 01:50 Family
• 03:05 Local hill with residences in past
• 05:10 Apple varieties in past, storing and drying apples
• 08:30 Dealing with fly problems in the past
• 12:35 Non-DARE questionnaire on foods [includes lengthy responses and recipes]
• 24:25 Non-DARE questionnaire on miscellaneous topics
• 27:00 Quilting, rug making
• 30:50 Non-DARE questionnaire on miscellaneous topics
• 32:05 Playing in the past
• 33:40 Non-DARE questionnaire on miscellaneous topics
• 37:00 Tape end