Louis Philip Trutter Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

A. Oh, Eminent domain, You know for the good of, they can come in and comiemn it That's
what happens with all these highways. These farmers get chopped in two.
Q. They buy it They do buy it from them but at a low price, right?
A. Well, look at it. $108. I think we sold that 50 acres. . ,we only sold them 49 acres by fighting
and fighting and fighting. We managed to keep the farm house and one acre. And my brother
and I own that now. It's come down to us and it's a little house. ..you how qhere the
maintenance area is on the east end of the University. It buts right into that ad
this little acre,
one am with a house on it, my brother and I rent this.
Q. What's the name of the road it's on?
A. West Lake Drive.
Q, Oh, it is West Lake.
A. 2335 West Lake. It's up high with a lot of trees.
Q. So what are you going to do with that eventually?
, A. We rent it. My brother's very sentimental about it.
Q. Does somebody live in it?
A, Yeah, huh, huh.
Q. So let's go back to this.
A. Oh, wait a minute. You see, I remember all about the Lake Spriu@eld because we used to go
out there for picnics and Sugar Creek came right across the bottom. . .if yougo down the hill at
Virginia Lane, you go down to tho water, and right qff their shoreline is some of tbe deepest
water in the lake, It's about 25 feet deep but that's where the old creek we* right through there
and we used to go down there and have picnics and gather paw paws and st@ that would grow
there wild. You how what a Paw is? It's kind of like a little wild banana.
Q. Why were bananas growing here?
A. They became a Paw. (Chuckle) But you see, I do know about the Me there because of that.
Q. How did they determine the size of it? . I know it's 56 miles around.
A. Yeah. I think they decided. ., a lot of engineering went into it, of courge, and sum
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