[PW] Not really Re: Sara Jane Moore -- accent?

[John Henderson]

I don't have an answer to the specific question, but I have heard 
atrocious attempts at West Virginia accents on network television.  
There was one show, fortunately otherwise unremembered, in which a 
family of caricatured hillbillies who were supposed to have been from 
West Virginia spoke with several different regional accents, one more 
North Carolinian, another Mississippian, and, worst of all, one sounding 
more like Vivian Leigh's Stella. Your wife likely could speak in an Emma 
Goldman accent and not do worse.

John Henderson
former resident of WVa
Ithaca College Library
jhenderson at ithaca.edu


Fuller, Thomas (US - Washington D.C.) wrote:
> For better or for worse, like calls to like.  My wife is if anything
> even more compulsive than I am.
>
> She's playing Emma Goldman in a local production of Sondheim's
> ASSASSINS, and is understudying the role of Sara Jane Moore, the
> would-be assassin of President Gerald Ford.  Moore grew up in West
> Virginia.
>
> Her question, a challenge to the list:  Did Moore speak with a West
> Virginia accent, or not?
>
> I can't find anything that answers this.  Can you?
>
> -- Tom 
>
>