Louis Philip Trutter Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

A. That was years later. When I was a kid it was a fair grounds period.
Q, And they're only for fairs?
A. Oh principally for the fairs. They did horses and stuff.
Q. Did they do a lot with children and 4H in those days?
A. Oh yeah. 4H. has been around for years and years.
Q. You were never involved in any of that?
A. No. That was for farm kids. I was Boys Scouts.
Q. Did the Boys Scouts do anything up there at all? March or. . .
A. They always had an exhibit out there. One of the greatest exhibits I used to go see was the
bees in the machine building. They two or three. . .they had Machinery Hall md then they had
one building that's now on the main drag and then in the back far corner there they'd have a big. .
. the beekeepers had a great big exhibit and they'd have all these glass things with the bees
crawling inside.
Q. So you could watch the activity?
A, You could watch the activity. Then they'd sell beeswax and things like Sat. Of course in
those days you'd need a piece of beeswax for your iron. Your electric irons pr, you'd always
have a pjece of bees wax in there.
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Q. It's peat for needles too.
A. Yes and shoemakers of course. They all had to have beeswax and that's I made my own
bows and arrows. I made my own bows and arrows out of lemon wood.
Q, Lemon wood?
A. kmon wood. Six foot staves about four wide. If I were to dig around the basement, I could
probably find one for you.
Q. Is lemon wood hard or soft?
A. Very hard. I don't know where they got it and with no knots in it.
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Q. From the West? Maybe from the South.
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