Texas woman talks about working on The Jarvis Ranch, growing up on a ranch, her family, and her schooling. Born in 1941

Texas, Amarllio, Jarvis Ranch, ranch, horses, cattle, bulls, calves, Two Bay Cafe, twins, children, parents, car accident, school

 

Man talks about his love of folk music and concerts. Convinces Congress to build music facility. Tells how his parents took him to Oklahoma on a wagon. He sings a sample of folk music. Woman says they “didn’t know it was called folk music then.”

Arkansas, mountain, concerts, music, Oklahoma, folk music

 

A Georgia mother talks about her children. She says they are very precious to her and she doesn't know what she'd do without them, even when they frustrate or aggravate her. She talks about how her kids are doing in school and how proud she is of them.  She also talks about her husband and how she enjoys life and being with her family.

Georgia, mother, kids, school, grades, husband, married, family

 

An 8 year old girl from a trailer park in Georgia talks about her school, her birthday, her summer break, her family, being bored, and various things she wants to do.

Georgia, school, math, birthday, beach, summer, family, bored, haircut, boyfriend, friends

White female 11, talks about flirting in class, and Kindergarten love life recorded 1993.

Flirting, kiss, class, Kindergarten, love

Young white males from London, Kentucky, aged 24-26, recorded in 1993.  They talk about how their town had the first KFC and about the annual World Chicken Festival.

 London, Kentucky: Mountain Southern: World Chicken Festival: White Males: KFC

Two men tell all about the world chicken festival in London, Kentucky. Then they talk about how chicken fights go down. 

Kentucky, Southern, fried chicken, festival, KFC, chicken fights

Jimmy Driftwood has written over 6,000 folk songs, including the Battle Hymn of New Orleans. He was recorded in the Ozarks, at the Ozark Folk Center in Mountain View, Arkansas, which he founded. He started writing songs to teach history at age 16 in a little schoolhouse. His parents took him in a covered wagon to Oklahoma.  He is well traveled, but his accent is strong and has remnants of early colonial sounds. This sample can be used to coach or re-create historical American Southern characters.

American Southern: Mountain Southern: Southern Dialects: Southern Accents: Ozarks: Arkansas, Mountain View.�

Mountain AS WF age 35: American Southern, Southern Accents, Southern Dialects, Mountain Southern, Arkansas, Mountain View, White Female, age 35, Mountain View, AS, WF, age 35, born in 1960, mother, turkey hunter, deer hunter. Ginger is a white female musician, deer and turkey hunter, and mother from Mountain View, Arkansas, recorded at age 35 in 1994 at the Ozark Folk Center. Her southern accent is a light rhotic ("r" pronouncing), working class, mountain southern dialect.

17 year old North Carolina White Female gossips about a girl named Ana, talks about how horrible she is, and makes joking threats. Some cursing.

North Carolina, White Female, 17 yrs old, young, gossip, Richmond County, threats, cursing

Sisters (or friends?) tease each other and talk about their past. They were in the Terry street gang and beat up other kids. She would throw pinecones and ketchup out of her treehouse. They sledded on trash can lids. One of the girls hates coming home for the holidays. One of them scored so high on the placement test she got to skip two classes. They tease each other about their phone use. 

North Carolina, Southern, teenager, childhood, gang, sledding, treehouse, sisters, friends

Mexican American Male talks about how he used to play sports and be on student council. In high school, he joined Distributive Education Clubs of America and worked to help his family. He bought his first car at 15. 

Texas, Mexican, youth, work, Chevy, student council, sports

 

19 year old woman from Greenwood, South Carolina talks about the price of gas, faxing, the lack of racism in the area, racism in other areas, the rallly in Georgia about the confederate flag and how the confederate flag is part of Southern heritage. She also talks about how people still own and live in plantation houses, but don't use the land. She says there are haunted places in the area and a lot of ghost stories about the area.

Greenwood, South Carolina, gas, prices, fax, confederate, flag, Georgia, rally, racism, slavery, Southern, heritage, plantation, chains, ghosts, haunted, stories, spirits

The text description for Sweetwater Texas WF b 1976 age 17 10

17 year old, White Female from Sweetwater, Texas talks about local stories and superstitions.

Sweetwater, Texas, local stories, superstitions, white female, high school, young, 17 years old

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White male in Texas talks about how they find places to party. They run Sweetwater and get in fights with other groups. The cops only try to bust kids drinking instead of deal with guns or drugs. They got thrown in jail for underage drinking and distributing to minors. 

Texas, party, Sweetwater, southern, party, fights

 

A 13 year old white female talks about how she and her friend used to sneak in and out of their houses to meet up for their boyfriends. One night at her friend's house the mom had nailed the windows shut and pulled a gun on the boyfriends waiting outside to scare them off that particular night. 

Georgia, teenager, mothers, sneak out, gun, boyfriends, nailed, caught, sly, asleep.

Rosa, a 68 year old white female talks about her family, being born and raised on the Eastern shore, meeting up with old friends and classmates, memories from her childhood and the games they would play like, red light, hopscotch and tin can.

Eastern shore, shopping, restaurants, classmates, Grandpop, family, accents, memories, games, red light, tin can, hopscotch, baseball, old friends, sandwich place, dance, English heritage.