Louis Philip Trutter Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

they had a little English, and say, "Would you like to see the water run?" They'd turn on a faucet
..the pools in there are not just a pool, they run up and down like this (demon$rates) with
flowers on each side like in the shape of a cross or something. The water sprays out and across
like this from each side and it'll be a couple of feet in the air and they're all the same height and
everything and then you cross this pond with a few escudoes and he's very happy and we're very
happy and I have movies of all of this. Now what else was different than this glace was that
Portugal was cold. Much colder than Italy so they had a cenwl heating plant where they burned
wood in this big oven and they had pipes, tubes made out of bricks and so on to each of their
buildings from the central heating plant. They'd get a big fire going in there ;qd the heat would
go and then it'd have to force it's way out and go to the pipes which would fe~d into these
buildings, in the Governor's Palace and so on and heat them from a central heating plant
(chuckle). I mean, we're not so darn smart as we think we are. The water in the aqueducts and
magnificent mosaics.
Q. Have you been to Dobiaco in Northern Italy?
A. No, we did Naples, Pompeii, Herculanum. Most people don't go to Herc@num, nevezt even
heard of it.
A. No. No. And then of course we did Rome and went up the old Roman highway up to Perusia
and St. Francis', I can't remember where he was.
Q. Assisi.
A. Assisi, yeah, and then Perusia, and then went on into Florence. We did tbat by bus,
Q. How about Malta?
A. Nope. Never got there.
Q. That's very Middle Eastem Have you been to the Middle East? ~orocc+?
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A. Oh yeah, we went to Morocco. We've recommended that to friends. Th 's the nearest thing
that we how to the Middle East or to the Orient is to go to Morocco. We w nt there four
different times.
Q. Casablanca?
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A. Oh, sure. Casablanca and Touradant even, down South. That's where t .y had the awful
earthquake, and Marakesh, and Fez, and oh the most important place, I can't think of the same of
it, the big town there, second town. Oh, and Rabat and we went over into @ mountains Qver to
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