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Audio Recording Conversation with 66 year old male and 61year old female, Macungie, Pennsylvania

Conversation with 66 year old male and 61year old female, Macungie, Pennsylvania

About this Item

Title

  • Conversation with 66 year old male and 61year old female, Macungie, Pennsylvania

Names

  • Unidentified (Speaker)
  • Huffines, Lois M. (Collector)

Created / Published

  • 1977-1981

Headings

  • -  English language--Dialects--Pennsylvania
  • -  Men--Pennsylvania--Macungie--Language
  • -  Women--Pennsylvania--Macungie--Language
  • -  Traditional Medicine--Pennsylvania--Lehigh County
  • -  Food habits--Pennsylvania--Lehigh County
  • -  Food--Preservation--Pennsylvania
  • -  Wine and wine making--Pennsylvania
  • -  Cookery--Pennsylvania
  • -  Pennsylvania Dutch--Pennsylvania--Lehigh County--Social life and customs
  • -  Rural schools--Pennsylvania--Lehigh County
  • -  Blessing and cursing--Pennsylvania
  • -  Healing--Pennsylvania--Folklore
  • -  Interviews
  • -  Narratives
  • -  Personal narratives
  • -  United States -- Pennsylvania -- Le High -- Macungie

Genre

  • Interviews
  • Narratives
  • Personal narratives

Notes

  • -  For rights information contact the collector’s institution: Bucknell University. Lewisburg, PA
  • -  Husband and wife, 66 and 61 years old, living in Macungie, Le High County, PA. Man is native speaker of Pennsylvania German who learned English in school; woman is native English speaker who learned Pennsylvania German before starting school.
  • -  Talk about canning; preserving; drying fruits; regional food specialties; winemaking; home remedies; and school.

Medium

  • Audio tape; 10.5” reel, 7.5 ips; duration: 26:29

Call Number/Physical Location

  • AFC 1986/022: AFS 24,346 b01

Source Collection

  • Center for Applied Linguistics Collection (AFC 1986/022)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

  • audio

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Credit line
Center for Applied Linguistics collection (AFC 1986/022), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.

Cite This Item

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Chicago citation style:

Unidentified, and Lois M Huffines. Conversation with 66 year old male and 61year old female, Macungie, Pennsylvania. to 1981, 1977. Audio. https://www.loc.gov/item/afccal000326/.

APA citation style:

Unidentified & Huffines, L. M. (1977) Conversation with 66 year old male and 61year old female, Macungie, Pennsylvania. to 1981. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afccal000326/.

MLA citation style:

Unidentified, and Lois M Huffines. Conversation with 66 year old male and 61year old female, Macungie, Pennsylvania. to 1981, 1977. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afccal000326/>.