Howard Herron Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield
Howard Herron Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield
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<strong>Howard</strong> Hezron 15<br />
Q: Didn't your mother make pumpkin pie out <strong>of</strong> them?<br />
A: Oh, yes, she made pumpkin pies. She was a wonderful cook until she<br />
got sick and . . .<br />
Q: Did you make jack-o-lanterns?<br />
A: No, no, my uncles, after my Grandfather Surgeon died, my two uncles,<br />
they kept or stayed on the farm and the apple orchards they run them.<br />
They would come to Batchtown with a big wagon on Thanksgiving Day and on<br />
weekends and they'd get mother and us boys and they would always want us<br />
to go out there with them because they had an old elderly woman that kind<br />
<strong>of</strong> cooked for them. She always smoked, old Mrs. Powell was her name, and<br />
she always smoked a clay pipe and I remember that real well. And my<br />
Uncle John, my Uncle W i l l had an organ and he played the organ and so . . .<br />
Q: You said you went out there on a wagon?<br />
A: They'd come into town with a big wagon and get us to go out. And<br />
they always wanted my mother to come out and stay the weekends and do a<br />
lot <strong>of</strong> the cooking for them because this old lady Powell wasn't much <strong>of</strong> a<br />
cook. And so they would keep us out there, get us to stay, they'd<br />
entertain us, they'd do anything to get us to stay out there with them.<br />
Q: This wagon was pulled by a horse?<br />
A: Yes, two horses.<br />
Q: Two horses?<br />
A: Yes, it was just an ordinary wagon that had the spring seats. On<br />
Thanksgiving Day we either had a goose for Thanksgiving or a goose for<br />
Christmas. My mother always had one <strong>of</strong> the two. We had a goose for<br />
Thanksgiving or so that she could get the goose grease and she would mix<br />
that goose grease with turpentine and camphor and grease our chests when<br />
we had colds. And that was . . .did I tell you about the acifidity?<br />
Q: Yes, you did. So she made up medicines, some home remedies?<br />
A: Home remedies.<br />
Q: Did you raise geese at your farm?<br />
A: My uncles did, but we didn't, we lived in town.<br />
Q: Oh, that's right.<br />
A: But my uncles sometimes they'd have geese, where they got them I<br />
don't know, but they always had them.<br />
Q: What other type food did your mother fix for Thanksgiving?
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