DARE Interview: Honesdale, Pennsylvania; Primary Informant PA086

Informant Data:

PA086: White; male; age: 74 (old); community type: village

Media Files:

Full Interview 1 (Tape 1380-S1). [Additional speakers: Informant's son and his wife]

Content:

[Fieldworker reported different ages] 00:50 Local car collector

01:40 Railroads—the Sturbridge Lion, the gravity railroad

03:20 Location of canal, uses

04:00 Education—Informant’s High School

05:50 Population of Honesdale

06:40 Local tramp with skin cancer [Informant’s wife speaks with him on the rest of tape]

10:20 Canal—mostly built by Irish immigrants

12:05 Informant wrote a book

12:30 Pranks—skimmleton—described

14:40 Informant is a member of the grange

17:55 Local industry—glass factories, cheese factory

20:20 Entertainment—ice cream socials

25:55 Wagons Informant used, oxen, horse teams

29:40 Games

32:00 Tape end

Full Interview 2 (Tape 1380-S2). [Additional speakers: Informant's son and his wife]

02:20 Job history—dairy farmer

02:50 Barn raisings

04:40 Types of fences used—stake and ride

06:20 Food—breakfast, pigs feet, scrapple, cider

13:50 Medical history—stroke, description of Informant’s smoking habit

18:00 Halloween—pranks, treats, costumes

20:40 Education—number of students in Informant’s class

20:55 Marble games, names for marbles

22:30 Games

27:50 Husking bees

29:05 Braided rugs

32:10 Tape end