DARE Interview : Lehighton, Pennsylvania; Primary Informant PA044

Fieldworker

Hausmann, Robert

Date

• 1967

Publisher

Dictionary of American Regional English

Summary

• Informant Data:
• PA044: White; male; age: 68 (old); education: high school; community type: village
• Media Files:
• Arthur the Rat. Speaker: PA044 (3:25)
• Full Interview 1 (Tape 1355-S1).
• Content:
• 00:50 Stories of local people
• 03:45 Recent changes in community—local industry
• 10:00 Farming—reasons small farms can’t survive
• 14:35 Community description—population levels
• 16:00 Changes in Catholicism, comparison between Lutherans and evangelists
• 20:05 Childhood games and activities
• 21:15 [Voices fade, terrible static]
• 25:00 Funerals—viewing bodies, role of undertaker
• 32:30 Tape end
• Full Interview 2 (Tape 1355-S2).
• Content:
• 00:05 Local missionaries killed in Indian raids
• 00:45 Local cemeteries—names, locations, reputations
• 03:15 Cost of cemetery plots, perpetual care—described
• 07:40 Laying out a grave
• 12:40 Arthur the Rat
• 16:20 Tape end