a’right ‘all right’), but not always so (e.g. For the latter, the phonological quality is sometimes certain (e.g. 6 She devised her own orthography to approximate pronunciation, relying heavily on apostrophes and employing some conventional dialect spellings (e.g.
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Chiles transcribed not only these, but also more focused series such as recollections of logging operations in pre-Park and the fiftieth reunion of the CCC held in 1983. The largest segment of this collection comprised miscellaneous oral history interviews recorded by volunteers and spark researchers between 19 with dozens of local residents who had grown up on lands ceded to the park. Chiles undertook this work of preservation and access for the benefit of future researchers, particularly staff and interns at the national park, who were frequently called on for programs. What truly made Hall’s 1939 recordings accessible was the tireless labor of Mary Ruth Chiles, a retired GSMNP employee who around 1980 took it upon herself (reportedly accepting a fee of one dollar an hour) to transcribe Hall’s recordings (both the passages of speech and the lyrics to music) and a host of others in the archives of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. There is no evidence in his extensive personal papers that he systematically transcribed any of his recordings. These reels were copied onto cassette and then kept in a climate-controlled environment. He donated a second copy of the reels to the archives of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, so that interpretive staff, researchers, and others could consult them. 4 From the latter he extracted passages that appeared in slightly edited form in two books, Smoky Mountain Folks and Their Lore (1960) and Y arns and Tales from Old Smoky (1978), which appeared from the Cataloochee Press, an imprint Hall established through a printshop in Asheville, North Carolina. At some point in the 1950s he arranged to have this done at the Library of Congress, where he deposited the original disks in exchange for compilations onto twenty reels. With the disks having a maximum play time of only about five or six minutes and made fragile by replaying, Hall eventually decided to have them converted to magnetic tape to facilitate his research and writing. Local men at these camps identified and often introduced him to “good talkers.” In 1939 he used two recording machines, a Garwick operated by cables hooked to the battery of a pick-up truck, on which he made about 90 aluminum disks, and an Allied that running on a battery pack, on which he made about 70 acetate disks (these numbers are imprecise because of discrepancies in Hall’s records). He used one CCC camp after another as a base from which to visit and record speakers. With recording equipment, transportation, and an assistant furnished by the National Park Service and the Civilian Conservation Corps, Hall was able to locate speakers throughout the Smokies. Heinmiller, forthcoming), and in Joseph Sargent Hall: The Man and His Work,” elsewhere at this site.
Hall (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2004), in Dictionary of Smoky Mountain and Southern Appalachian English (Michael Montgomery and Jennifer N. Further information on Hall’s work and career can be found in the introduction to Dictionary of Smoky Mountain English, ed. Along with speech in the form of interviews, anecdotes, and stories, he recorded two other types of material, one he anticipated (renditions of the standard reading passage “Arthur the Rat” 2) and one he did not (music 3). That first summer of 1937 he used to become acquainted with mountain people, filling several 5"x7" notebooks with notes and transcriptions, but only when he returned in 1939 did he start recording them. 1 As a graduate student at Columbia University studying linguistics at the time, the young Californian energetically met the challenge. He had already spent the summer of 1937 in the area under the auspices of the National Park Service, which hired him to begin compiling a record of the traditional culture of residents who had recently been relocated from, or in some cases given leases to live out their lives on, lands which they and their families had occupied sometimes for three or more generations. Beginning in June of 1939 Hall spent seven months visiting and recording people in and around the Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee. The following account details how the early recordings of Joseph Sargent Hall (1906-92) and their transcription presented here came to be.
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