DARE Interview: Montague/North Leverett, Massachusetts; Primary Informant MA005
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- 1966
- Description
Informant Data:
MA005: White; female; age: 83 (old); education: college; community type: rural
MA005C: White; male; age: 82 (old); community type: rural
Media Files:
Full Interview 1 (Tape 0818-S1).
Content:
00:20 Children’s rhymes
02:40 DARE Questionnaire I (Vegetables and Fruits)
09:35 Baked beans; life in the past—Sabbath customs
11:30 DARE Questionnaire I (Vegetables and Fruits)
27:25 Fruit preserves: quince, citron
29:50 DARE Questionnaire L (Farming)
32:35 Tape end
Full Interview 2 (Tape 0818-S2).
00:15 DARE Questionnaire L (Farming)—includes detailed responses on farming methods
Full Interview 3 (Tape 0819-S1). [Additional speakers: MA005C]
01:10 Conversation about Fieldworker's work
02:50 Maple syrup making [MA005C with comments from MA005]
(03:20) Sap collection
(20:45) Boiling of sap for syrup
33:25 Tape end
Full Interview 4 (Tape 0819-S2). [Additional speakers: MA005C]
00:15 Maple syrup and maple sugar making [MA005C with comments from MA005]
(00:15 Syrup weight
(01:10) Making maple sugar from syrup
(06:40) Equipment
(13:10) Economics of syrup making, yields
19:50 Maple syrup making and use by Indians in past
21:55 Maple syrup as a flavoring, maple candy molds, types of maple sugar
27:30 Maple syrup quality, modern equipment
33:40 Tape end
Full Interview 5 (Tape 0820-S1). [Additional speakers: MA005C]
00:30 Maple syrup making and selling [MA005C with comments from MA005]
(00:30) Collecting sap
(01:40) Making syrup
(02:20) Marketing and selling
06:35 Portable sawmills
08:15 Local people
12:30 Logging—timberland, cutting lumber
15:35 Tape end
Full Interview 6 (Tape 0821-S1). [Additional speakers: MA005C]
01:05 Logging and portable sawmill operation [MA005C with comments from MA005]
(01:05) Portable sawmill, tree cutting, lumber terms
(14:35) Sawing lumber
(25:15) Logging operations, sawmill crew
32:05 Tape end
Full Interview 7 (Tape 0822-S1). [Additional speakers: MA005C]
00:15 [Fieldworker misspeaks about recordings. This interview continues from 0821-S1]
01:00 Logging and portable sawmill operation [MA005C with comments by MA005]
(01:10) Logging life; sawmills
(08:30) Lumber contracts
(11:50) Types of wood, types of lumber
(19:50) Railroad ties, telephone poles
(23:50) Logging sites
(30:10) Lumber sizes
34:05 Tape end
Full Interview 8 (Tape 0822-S2). [Additional speakers: MA005C]
00:10 Logging and cordwood
06:00 Charcoal making
(06:00) Kilns and firing kilns for charcoal making
(17:00) History of charcoal kilns locally
(19:20) Making charcoal in pits
22:00 Logging—log drives
26:20 Tape end
- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
- Publisher
- Dictionary of American Regional English
- Subjects
- Children's rhymes
DARE QR
Life in the past
Food preservation
DARE QR Section I
DARE QR Section L
Farming
Maple sugar making
Maple syrup
Maple syrup making
Logging
Local people
Sawmills
Lumber
Charcoal making
Franklin County (Massachusetts)
Montague/North Leverett (Massachusetts) - Type
- sound
- Language
- English, English
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- DARE Interview: Montague/North Leverett, Massachusetts; Primary Informant MA005. 1966. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/GRNZEDHRDRE7N8A. (Accessed April 18, 2024.)
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- (1966) DARE Interview: Montague/North Leverett, Massachusetts; Primary Informant MA005. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/GRNZEDHRDRE7N8A
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- Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <https://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/GRNZEDHRDRE7N8A>.