DARE Interview: Dothan, Alabama; Primary Informant AL015
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- Created Date
- 1967
- Description
Informant Data:
AL015: White; female; age: 63 (old); education: grade school; community type: small city
Media Files:
Arthur the Rat. Speaker: AL015 (3:23)
Full Interview 1 (Tape 0018-S1).
Content:
00:35 Arthur the Rat
04:00 Tape end
Full Interview 2 (Tape 0019-S1).
00:35 Cooking in fireplace
02:20 Preserving food
03:10 Schoolhouse
07:00 Curing meat
08:40 Syrup making
10:35 Silver sugar dish
11:55 Blacksmith shop
14:15 Social gatherings, Christmas and serenades
16:55 "Protracted" church meetings
19:15 Community, where Informant has lived
20:40 Stove, community
23:55 Mother's family
24:30 Her house
25:50 Antiques
29:10 Plantations
31:10 Black tenants
32:55 Fertilizer
34:30 Tape end
Full Interview 3 (Tape 0019-S2).
00:20 Old clothing
01:35 Houses Informant lived in, house styles
06:00 Dairy cattle, making butter by hand and with electric churn
12:00 Trees in Alabama and Georgia, tree farming and logging
14:55 Stylish flowers
17:45 Parental discipline, getting in trouble with her mother
20:45 Feed sack dresses
22:40 Christmas presents, toys
24:05 Cotton picking by machine, fertilizing fields
25:30 Indoor plumbing vs. outhouse
29:20 High prices, bargain hunting
30:50 Dealing with accumulation of belongings, unnecessary purchases
34:35 Tape end
- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
- Publisher
- Dictionary of American Regional English
- Subjects
- Home life
Family history
Community history
Antiques
Church
Race
Clothing
Farming
Collecting
Local customs
Houston County (Alabama)
Dothan (Alabama) - Type
- sound
- Language
- English, English
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- DARE Interview: Dothan, Alabama; Primary Informant AL015. 1967. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/57ME4ZFXVP32D8L. (Accessed April 17, 2024.)
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- (1967) DARE Interview: Dothan, Alabama; Primary Informant AL015. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/57ME4ZFXVP32D8L
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- Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <https://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/57ME4ZFXVP32D8L>.