DARE Interview: Charlemont, Massachusetts; Primary Informant MA025
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- Created Date
- 1969
- Description
Informant Data:
MA025: White; male; age: 74 (old); education: grade school; community type: rural
MA025A: White; female; community type: rural
Media Files:
Arthur the Rat. Speaker: MA025 (4:02) [Faint high-pitched whistle and low motor hum]
Full Interview 1 (Tape 0835-S1). [Additional speakers: MA025A]
Content:
00:35 [Intro]
00:55 Arthur the Rat
05:25 Farming
07:05 Maple syrup making
15:15 Farm machinery in the past
16:15 Haymaking in the past
19:30 Barn and cattle
20:55 Haymaking
21:30 Livestock
24:35 Agricultural fairs (contemporary)
26:10 Fourth of July firecrackers
26:50 Handmade rugs
27:25 Celebrations in past
28:30 [Fieldworker comments]
29:00 Tape end
Full Interview 2 (Tape 0835-S2). [Additional speakers: MA025A]
00:05 Hurricane of 1938
04:15 Electric fences to contain livestock
06:45 [Fieldworker comments]
07:35 Tape end
- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
- Publisher
- Dictionary of American Regional English
- Subjects
- Farming
Maple syrup making
Farm machinery
Livestock
Haymaking
Fairs
Celebrations
Weather
Franklin County (Massachusetts)
Charlemont (Massachusetts) - Type
- sound
- Language
- English, English
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- DARE Interview: Charlemont, Massachusetts; Primary Informant MA025. 1969. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/7AFVMNITSVHJY8N. (Accessed March 28, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- (1969) DARE Interview: Charlemont, Massachusetts; Primary Informant MA025. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/7AFVMNITSVHJY8N
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- Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <https://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/7AFVMNITSVHJY8N>.