ABSTRACT
Context, Style, and Language: Frank Woods is staying with the Barter family and everyone is gathered in the kitchen listening to him reminisce, tell stories, and sing. He sits at one end of the chrome table and the interviewer at the other, the tape recorder being placed on the table. At the back of the room some of the children are sitting on a bench near the door leading to the porch and the wooden “bridge” or walkway outside. The stove is on the right of the doorway and the table on the left, with one side against the wall and chairs round the other sides. A doorway to the right of the inner wall leads to the hallway and living room. In one of the inner corners of the kitchen is Mrs. Barter's rocking chair, and there are several other chairs on which the rest of the audience are sitting to listen to Uncle Frank, as he is locally called. The normal everyday domestic activities carry on in the kitchen-crockery and pans are heard rattling in the background and wood is crackling in the stove.
