Mark Heyman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

A: Maw --thirty. I dcnlt &ly -1. -18 would a
in. Them muld be fifty or sixty pwple set up for that. After
b ~ w@ wwld ~ . . . ,
Q: Was this cafeteria-style or were yau sewed?
A: It was half ard half hatuse it depended upon what we were at-.
weld pick up a grapefruit or omrqe juice ard coffee ard things like
that. Arvclthenwe~dsitdmnardthen~wascookirmgwhethex
it was, I say, pancakes or scrambled eggs or scmwWrq of that nab,
whythen~theysaw~pupleintherwmn, theywmldcookupa
batch and than ~~anwrme wwld bring thm out m a plate. So, it was
very informal. There were a qle of -1e u b were assigned to the
kitchen. This was om of the rwtathq ass~grrmsrYts, but they were a
small rmmber. Now, the rest of us, we wwld go back to crur mums and
get ready for garden. GaEkl was farming or landscapirrg, ard it was
y . I recall the petunia patch. There was an acre of
petunias in a triangular shape in the valley where three roads came
together. Yaut d drive off the main road to go up the hill to Talisin
and that's what people saw. It was kind of like a sign. I1Ym go
drive dcrwn to the petunias ard then yau turn up the hill an3 youlll
get to Wiesh1l That took a lut of weeding. But then we had
vegetables, potaW, squash, and stra-ies, d there was a
vhyad as well. It was abQut an hour or so of work before it got too
hut. We-&WwewiWlthehaesarrd ' , txa~tirnes
harvesting the stuff, but mtly rreeding and-ting. That was
called Itgarden. And when that was over, you'd geraerrPlly have to wash
up a little bit, but we'd go to our general assigrrmenrts. We were
either doing, as I told yuu before, large-scale mahbmme, for
exarrrple, like dxqphq or w were doing mnstmction or in the
draft* man. lIhese were the basic assigmnents. Most of the peaple
were in mnstruction and in the draft- mum. So, we were always
wearing blue jeans arrd work shoes, clothes, sa that ycru could
very easily mwe frcm one to the other. But basicaLly, the people in
the draft- roam had to have clean hands arrd rrrore or less clean
elm, ?hey were wrking at drawings, l?mik Llqd Wright's
drawhgB. Ard the rest: of us WZe pretty gnlqy lookirrg because we
were hauling rock, do@ mrk, hamwing nails ard all of
that kind of thing. So, we did basic assignments Wch we
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sbyed on for wt3akEi on end,
an the pmject, until lunch.
I'm just going to give you t-e thmqh the day. I think
therewasagongforlunch. lherewxeallkirdsofgmrg~i~~
so on, but arryway it wa~l araurd m. And then we wmld go back to
Hillside and have lunch. And then after l-, w Id go back to our
assigmmt. At faur or fmthirty, there was a break. There was
tea. lhere was a tea &. In ~rds, that was me of the
ma-assi-. TheperslnrhowarldbeateamokWd
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mrk m othsr thugs, such as in the drafthq rocan or cmstmction.
Wztwhenteatinrem, Illleanthq'dhavetobereadyforteaand
smethhq to eat with it for fifty -1e. That was sexved in various
places near kitchens, of came. If there a lot of people at
Hillside, that Is usually where it was, at Hillside. mires it was
at Taliesin, would ta)re it cut in the field. So , wery+dy
would break at fmr o'clock for tea. I gather that might did m e in
his Oak Park m o in 1893, so it was a 1- cusbn. So,