DARE Interview: Lebanon, Connecticut; Primary Informant CT036
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- Created Date
- 1969
- Description
Informant Data:
CT036: White; male; age: 71 (old); community type: rural
Media Files:
Arthur the Rat. Speaker: CT036 (3:31)
Full Interview 1 (Tape 0214-S1). [Additional speakers: Adult female, Male child?]
Content:
00:35 Frog sounds; rattlesnakes will fight black snakes, but will also sneak into their burrows to hibernate
04:05 His impressionable youth—discovering about padded bills, buying a tall tale about milking out West
08:15 Traveling with family, favorite restaurants
13:00 His theory of Jews and where their stereotype came from
15:50 Looking over his Indian artifacts: drills, knives, arrowheads. Explains barbed wire ones
23:00 Old town records show how terms for illegitimate children, poorhouse change over time
27:00 What county home provided when he was a child. Being bound out to a farmer
31:00 School requirements, lumber industry
34:05 Tape end
Full Interview 2 (Tape 0214-S2). [Additional speakers: Adult female]
00:05 Growing up with couple in their 70s. Man was a Baptist deacon, good man.
03:25 Arguing with the old man, and then later admitting that he was wrong; lessons he learned.
07:10 Entertainment—driving out to sell heifers and lounge by spring; watching blacksmith
11:10 Shops in town, untangling string for broom factory. Town was bigger in 1780 than now
16:00 Describes an old town wit
17:55 Arthur the Rat
21:35 Overhear women talking about water, typing
23:05 Chasing pigs, driving behind National Guard
24:55 Tape end
- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
- Publisher
- Dictionary of American Regional English
- Subjects
- Snakes
Travel
Race
Indian artifacts
Language
Poverty
School
Lumbering
Growing up
Entertainment
Progress
New London County (Connecticut)
Lebanon (Connecticut) - Type
- sound
- Language
- English, English
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- DARE Interview: Lebanon, Connecticut; Primary Informant CT036. 1969. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WLQX6UQRV3BP28Z. (Accessed March 28, 2024.)
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- (1969) DARE Interview: Lebanon, Connecticut; Primary Informant CT036. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WLQX6UQRV3BP28Z
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- Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <https://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WLQX6UQRV3BP28Z>.