DARE Interview: Corona, New York; Primary Informant NY078
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- 1968
- Description
Informant Data:
NY078: White; female; age: 57 (middle-aged); education: high school; community type: urban
NY078A: female; age: 88 (old)
Media Files:
Arthur the Rat. Speaker: NY078 (3:07)
Full Interview 1 (Tape 1115-S1).
Content:
00:30 Corona in the past, family history
02:30 Family house, heating, washing, lights
08:05 Laundry and bathing in the past
10:25 Schools
12:05 Local communities
15:30 Union Evangelical Church history and activities
21:55 Children's games
26:35 Local history—local places in the past, amusement park
30:10 Transportation in the past—train, subway, trolley, auto
32:20 Tape end
Full Interview 2 (Tape 1115-S2). [Additional speakers: NY078A (Informant’s aunt)]
[NY078] 00:15 Travel time past and present to vacation site
01:05 Pets—12 cats
04:00 [Prohibition question—she does not remember that early]
04:55 Arthur the Rat
08:15 End this interview—begin new interview with aunt
[NY078A] 09:10 Corona in the past, she is 88 years old, groceries in the past
14:35 Family history: parents, personal history
16:15 Transportation in the past to Manhattan
17:15 School in the past
20:15 Transportation—sleighs, horse-drawn plows, trolley
21:50 Ethnic makeup of the town in the past
23:00 Her father was a woodturner who made woodwork for houses
26:40 Tape end
- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
- Publisher
- Dictionary of American Regional English
- Subjects
- Local history
Family history
Houses
Life in the past
School
Churches
Games
Transportation
Pets
Queens County (New York)
Corona (New York) - Type
- sound
- Language
- English, English
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- DARE Interview: Corona, New York; Primary Informant NY078. 1968. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/RUNLLYV3UDALH8Z. (Accessed March 29, 2024.)
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- (1968) DARE Interview: Corona, New York; Primary Informant NY078. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/RUNLLYV3UDALH8Z
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- Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <https://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/RUNLLYV3UDALH8Z>.