DARE Interview: Sawyer, Kentucky; Primary Informant KY016
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- Created Date
- 1969
- Description
Informant Data:
KY016: White; male; age: 69 (old); education: grade school; community type: rural
KY017: White; female; age: 67 (old); education: grade school; community type: rural
KY016A: White; male; age: 85 (old); education: grade school; community type: rural
Media Files:
Arthur the Rat. Speaker: KY016 (3:53) [Brief signal dropouts due to a faulty microphone connection]
Full Interview 1 (Tape 0546-S1). [Additional speakers: KY017]
Content:
[KY016] 00:10 Arthur the Rat
04:10 Collection of Indian relics and antiques
06:15 Life in the past—recreation and work
08:05 Hunting dogs, fox hunting
13:20 General store
17:30 Schools in past locally
20:35 Health care in past, herbal remedies
21:55 Superstitious beliefs
[KY017] 23:55 Stories about ghosts, hauntings, superstitions
34:15 Tape end
Full Interview 2 (Tape 0547-S1). [Additional speakers: KY016A, KY017]
[KY016A] 00:30 Drinking with local people; joke
[KY016] 04:16 Local people
[KY016A] 05:40 Local people—weddings and marriages
[KY017] 15:40 Local elopement
[KY016A] 17:10 Local weddings
20:10 Cattle-buying trip story
[KY016] 22:40 Food—mutton eating
[KY016A] 23:25 Mutton-eating story
[KY016] 27:40 Hunting trips stories
31:00 Tape end
Full Interview 3 (Tape 0547-S2). [Additional speakers: KY016A]
[KY016A] 00:05 Drinking with local people—farmers; fishing story
[KY016 and KY016A] 06:55 Continuation of fishing story
08:50 Local fishing
[KY016] 14:20 Transport of logs by water described
[KY016 and KY016A] 18:25 Coal boats
[KY016] 20:50 Farming
[KY016A] 21:05 Income in past
[KY016 and KY016A] 22:20 Mining coal
- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
- Publisher
- Dictionary of American Regional English
- Subjects
- Hobbies
Local history
Hunting
Superstitions
Ghost stories
Local stories
Fishing
Logging
Coal mining
Local people
McCreary County (Kentucky)
Sawyer (Kentucky) - Type
- sound
- Language
- English, English
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- DARE Interview: Sawyer, Kentucky; Primary Informant KY016. 1969. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/EJ52E2QK6S6DE8G. (Accessed March 29, 2024.)
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- (1969) DARE Interview: Sawyer, Kentucky; Primary Informant KY016. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/EJ52E2QK6S6DE8G
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- Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <https://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/EJ52E2QK6S6DE8G>.