DARE Interview: Boonville, New York; Primary Informant NY096
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- Created Date
- 1968
- Description
Informant Data:
NY096: White; male; age: 74 (old); education: grade school; community type: village
Media Files:
Arthur the Rat. Speaker: NY096 (4:40)
Full Interview 1 (Tape 1128-S1).
Content:
00:20 Logging trees in the past (ca. 1920s)
10:00 Local furniture factory in the past, woods used for chairs
11:30 Logging for the furniture company; furniture wood; lumber
17:30 Sawmill saws
19:25 Logging: saws, cutting trees, cutting logs
22:40 Trees used for pulpwood for paper
24:50 Logging equipment, machinery
26:25 Lumber camp life, lumberjacks
28:20 Log drives to paper mill; the hardwood market
31:15 Tape end
Full Interview 2 (Tape 1128-S2).
00:05 Logging, logging machines, cutting trees and logs, log-moving equipment
08:00 Sawmills bought only one kind of wood (for furniture and paper, or handles)
11:05 In the past logs were exported to Europe
12:10 Shipping logs to New York City by horse-drawn vehicle and on the canal (before the turn of the century)
16:00 Canals, sawmills [described]
24:25 His grandfather and father were loggers, they used oxen teams
26:30 Arthur the Rat
31:00 Tape end
- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
- Publisher
- Dictionary of American Regional English
- Subjects
- Trees
Lumber
Furniture
Sawmills
Saws
Lumber camp
Logging
Wood
Shipping
Canals
Family history
Oxen teams
Oneida County (New York)
Boonville (New York) - Type
- sound
- Language
- English, English
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- DARE Interview: Boonville, New York; Primary Informant NY096. 1968. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/RTJIS5OWBFXG28F. (Accessed April 19, 2024.)
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- (1968) DARE Interview: Boonville, New York; Primary Informant NY096. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/RTJIS5OWBFXG28F
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- Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <https://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/RTJIS5OWBFXG28F>.