DARE Interview: Fredericksburg, Texas; Primary Informant TX054
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- Created Date
- 1968
- Description
Informant Data:
TX054: White; male; age: 60 (old); education: grade school; community type: village
Media Files:
Arthur the Rat. Speaker: TX054 (3:18) [A bit echoey]
Full Interview 1 (Tape 1649-S1).
Content:
00:20 Arthur the Rat
03:40 [Reads history of local jails and sheriffs]
09:10 His father was sheriff; he became sheriff himself 1950 after career as pro and semi-pro baseball
10:30 Baseball players; baseball stories; childhood area teams
20:40 Family life in the past
22:25 Farming in past
27:40 Getting into pro baseball
29:20 Becoming sheriff
30:00 Tape end
Full Interview 2 (Tape 1649-S2).
00:05 Humorous story
01:30 [Reads article about his baseball career]
04:35 Sheriff work—gun use
06:05 [Looking at photos, reads from newspapers in English and German]
10:40 Family settled in area in 1846 from Germany; Irish grandfather from Canada
14:10 Law enforcement, jails
18:40 Tape end
- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
- Publisher
- Dictionary of American Regional English
- Subjects
- Local history
Baseball
Family history
Farming
Law enforcement
Jails
Gillespie County (Texas)
Fredericksburg (Texas) - Type
- sound
- Language
- English, English
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- DARE Interview: Fredericksburg, Texas; Primary Informant TX054. 1968. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/FZ5XS6EYCGQ3X8K. (Accessed April 19, 2024.)
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- (1968) DARE Interview: Fredericksburg, Texas; Primary Informant TX054. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/FZ5XS6EYCGQ3X8K
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- Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <https://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/FZ5XS6EYCGQ3X8K>.