DARE Interview: Williamsport, Pennsylvania; Primary Informant PA199
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- Created Date
- 1969
- Description
Informant Data:
PA199: White; male; age: 57 (middle-aged); education: high school; community type: small city
Media Files:
Arthur the Rat. Speaker: PA199 (3:19)
Full Interview 1 (Tape 1436-S1).
Content:
00:20 Arthur the Rat
03:45 Informant belongs to a softball organization—description of the construction of their new field
13:40 Little league—was started in Informant’s town
16:30 Job history-Assistant Postmaster
21:40 Possibility of Post Office becoming a private corporation
23:50 Hunting—Informant hunts mostly bear and deer—belongs to a camp—description
30:10 Pow-wow doctors—described
32:35 Tape end
Full Interview 2 (Tape 1436-S2).
00:05 Home remedies—elderberry salve for burns
04:00 Informant loves trout fishing
05:10 Informant has hunted rattlesnake with a .22 pistol—stories about hunting rattlesnakes
14:15 Tape end
- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
- Publisher
- Dictionary of American Regional English
- Subjects
- Organizations
Softball
Baseball
Job history
Post office
Hunting
Pow-wows
Home remedies
Fishing
Rattlesnakes
Lycoming County (Pennsylvania)
Williamsport (Pennsylvania) - Type
- sound
- Language
- English, English
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- DARE Interview: Williamsport, Pennsylvania; Primary Informant PA199. 1969. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WKGRSEJUVCKC68O. (Accessed March 29, 2024.)
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- (1969) DARE Interview: Williamsport, Pennsylvania; Primary Informant PA199. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WKGRSEJUVCKC68O
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- Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <https://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WKGRSEJUVCKC68O>.