DARE Interview: Colrain, Massachusetts; Primary Informant MA117
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- Created Date
- 1967
- Description
Informant Data:
MA005: White; female; age: 83 (old); education: college; community type: rural
MA117: White; female; age: 91 (old); community type: village
Media Files:
Full Interview 1 (Tape 0907-S1). [Additional speakers: MA005]
Content:
00:45 Family history
04:15 Weaving palm leaf hats for sale by peddlers
09:15 Cooking in the past—spices
10:20 Local school, local person
11:15 Personal history: marriage, farm work
13:10 Oxen and horses for travel and on the farm
15:00 1888 Blizzard
18:25 Snow plowing and snow packing on roads in the past
21:05 Farm life in the past: corn, milling, hominy, maple syrup and sugar, childhood chores
30:10 Dairy farming, chickens, cheese making, homemade yeast, wild hops used in yeast making, food storage
37:00 Tape end
Full Interview 2 (Tape 0907-S2). [Additional speakers: MA005]
00:05 Food storage in the past
01:50 Family
03:05 Local hill with residences in past
05:10 Apple varieties in past, storing and drying apples
08:30 Dealing with fly problems in the past
12:35 Non-DARE questionnaire on foods [includes lengthy responses and recipes]
24:25 Non-DARE questionnaire on miscellaneous topics
27:00 Quilting, rug making
30:50 Non-DARE questionnaire on miscellaneous topics
32:05 Playing in the past
33:40 Non-DARE questionnaire on miscellaneous topics
- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
- Publisher
- Dictionary of American Regional English
- Subjects
- Family history
Hatmaking
Cooking
Farm life
Weather
Roads
Food
Food storage
Family
Local history
Insects
Non-DARE questionnaire
Quilting
Farming
Franklin County (Massachusetts)
Colrain (Massachusetts) - Type
- sound
- Language
- English, English
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- DARE Interview: Colrain, Massachusetts; Primary Informant MA117. 1967. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/ZNQA7EMKKUDMP87. (Accessed March 28, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- (1967) DARE Interview: Colrain, Massachusetts; Primary Informant MA117. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/ZNQA7EMKKUDMP87
- MLA citation style
- Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <https://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/ZNQA7EMKKUDMP87>.