DARE Interview: Gardner, Massachusetts; Primary Informant MA062
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- Created Date
- 1969
- Description
Informant Data:
MA062: White; male; age: 82 (old); education: high school; community type: small city
Media Files:
Arthur the Rat. Speaker: MA062 (3:29)
Full Interview 1 (Tape 0865-S1).
Content:
00:25 Arthur the Rat
04:00 Travel to Virginia (1907)
05:45 Hunting, photographing wildlife
16:00 City life versus country life, flowers
19:15 Schools
23:15 Locating water [dowsing]
29:40 Country fairs
31:45 Tape end
Full Interview 2 (Tape 0865-S2).
00:10 County fairs, water pumping contest
01:20 Firefighting
05:50 Tin pot and pan shops and peddling
06:20 Jonas Clark—local philanthropist
07:20 Historical society, library and librarians
10:30 Weather
12:20 Water power, water mills
14:10 Flood of 1938
15:20 Tape end
- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
- Publisher
- Dictionary of American Regional English
- Subjects
- Travel
Hunting
Photography
Rural life
School
Dowsing
Fairs
Firefighting
Local industry
Local people
Weather
Water power
Worcester County (Massachusetts)
Gardner (Massachusetts) - Type
- sound
- Language
- English, English
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- DARE Interview: Gardner, Massachusetts; Primary Informant MA062. 1969. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/5Q3TOB6HCHZDC8X. (Accessed April 17, 2024.)
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