Illinois Eight - Text
Subject is male, 20 years of age, born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. At the time of the recording he is a Sophomore Acting Major at the University of Illinois- Urbana/Champaign. The subject tells of a vivid memory of what happened one day on a family fishing trip to Wisconsin. Present in his speech is the characteristic Chicago /ae/ vowel, slightly denasalized and with fairly typical head resonance. The vocal fry present in the reading of Comma Gets a Cure dissipates and finally leaves in the unscripted telling of the memory and a quicker rate of utterance and use of more notes in his range are displayed.
TRANSCRIPTION
I think this happened when I was in about 7th or 8th grade. It was in the summertime. My family and I had gone to Wisconsin to Mirror Lake, I think it was, to camp and we were out early in the morning fishing; my Dad, my Mom, my brother and I on the boat. And on the lake there are these bluffs alongside, on the banks, they're really pretty, rocky, just red and really pretty. And we're trolling along just fishing, relaxing and we see a goat run by on the bluff and we go okay that's kind of odd and my Dad had a camera with him- a video camera- so we took that out and started recording and we kept going and we see a wolf run by in the same direction on the bluff ands we go okay, alright this is pretty interesting so we go we're gonna go see what we can see so there end up being what looked like two wolves there on the bluff and they caught up with this goat and we got this all on camera- we're recording this- and these wolves attacked this goat and drag it from the bluff into the water and there's this whole fight in the water that they're having and they end up drowning the goat and eating it and we have this all on camera. And my Mom's freaking out and my Dad and my brother and I are this is the coolest thing in the world, you know it was amazing. And we went back to the Lodge and told the woman at the desk about this and she said 'yeah, there are goats here but we don't see many wolves' but she mentioned that there had been Alaskan huskies that had gotten lose or free for a while and it may very well have been them. It was pretty unbelievable to have been in Wisconsin to have seen that- that's unexpected.
This recording was made on 5/11/2004 by Jill Walmsley Zager. Running time, 00:04:11.