Mark Heyman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

the phile. Over a pried of th one has a mix of different
kbds of activities,
Q: Were there tires yau wordwed why you, a gram man, wanting
tobecorreanar&itectwasspmlhqyaurtimemakingsbcrppingtrips
into Spring Green as part of it?
A: As a matter of fa&, I didn't have the shcllJpirrg assignrent in
Wisconsin. I had it in Arizona and the dif ferencrr is that--well,
there were tw differences. One, in Wiscmsin there were two places
to go; to Sprirrg Green, which is abut five miles asmy and the other
one was ~~, which is a big city, abcrut w - f ive miles away.
But in Arizona, the sh0pph-q was in Phoenix, which ms twmty-f ive
miles away and that was a 1 9 trip, particularly cm partly unpaved
&--the last few miles of rpad. And I did have that assignment in
Arizona. I had it for a at a t h
and everyday want to the
wholesale vegetable markt early in the m*. We b-t scarre
vegetables dmm frm Whmnsin, lxzt in Arizona we didn't have enough.
So, I had to go dam to the farmer's market at six olclo& in the
mmirwJ or six* the gr~aery stores went to the wmlesaler
ardwehmght matesof lmandcratesof thisandmtesof that.
And then a m that, or on wrne other trim go dawn later in the day,
or m &her days, and buy lumber materials. Naw, that was a real
&re and I fourrd that wek, when I had that assigrmrent, arrl I only
had it a few th, that ms that was really like K.P. in
warfly. mtwasthenrostbothersaae~tome. Onthecrthw
hard, that was rare. I m I did that rarely.
Another-le. 1-Ispntabcrutamwithanother
apprentice in the hsemmt of the theater in Hillside finis- it and
putting in a ba- and paneling the walls. That was for w.
~thqgattothetheater, ~warrtedtousethelmtor1egandgo
dmmtothe-. Iremnbrwe~dmtreatdum~alanefor
all mo- & thAn all aftenxxrn ard it ms very difficult
crmstruction. It was a mmreb buildhq and there was plbirrg d
you would have to get l3m rimt matmials and so on. just
right. It was done very niaely. We did a nice jab. The other
apprentice was vary fastidius. But me -, what are yau doing
this for? well, I was leamhq about consmcticm, but we wlere
isolated and it wa~l a little bit like Siberia. Wzt these tasks
. ~ofthet~we~~in~apenandmwleredo~
cmstmxtica?, not of prtting in a lavatory, but of entire buildings
that ware designed by F!mnk Uayd Wright and he'd am mxrd ard look
a t w h a t w e ~ d o i t q a n d h s ~ so~were d ~ ~ ,
participath-q in the mmhwticm re-design of his archiwhichwasvery
ediucatiandl. So, I had no qualms abart that, even
carry~cnltthemirnrtedetails. Thedmvingswereusuallyvery
because he wuuld be there wary day. So, that when yau ame
to do sawthbq, ym had to hkpmt it like a craftmm. This is
reallywhat~didwhenf wntauttovmrkmthehmsein~icut.
I skippdmewinter inArizona ardwmttotmrkas a laborerrma
house m Cmmecticut for which I'd dme the worm drawings with
-others. A n d t h e m t h e ~ ~ ~ a n i n g ~ t o ~ m e a n d
saying, '~doc~ledothis?~tdo~dOhsre?It~'tahcrwmthe
yau see. h-d thAn I'd irrterpret it or if it was tao