DARE Interview: Montrose, Pennsylvania; Primary Informant PA104
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- Created Date
- 1968
- Description
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).
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
- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
- Publisher
- Dictionary of American Regional English
- Subjects
- Animals
Community description
Roads
Bodies of water
Local industry
Bridges
Family history
Politics
Local history
Entertainment
Clothing
Job history
Pranks
Susquehanna County (Pennsylvania)
Montrose (Pennsylvania) - Type
- sound
- Language
- English, English
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- DARE Interview: Montrose, Pennsylvania; Primary Informant PA104. 1968. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/XF56VXXPCXHUY8N. (Accessed April 19, 2024.)
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- (1968) DARE Interview: Montrose, Pennsylvania; Primary Informant PA104. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/XF56VXXPCXHUY8N
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- Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <https://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/XF56VXXPCXHUY8N>.