Louis Philip Trutter Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

the east Golly, I'm having trouble remembering all these names. They'll corn$ to me when it's
too late here. Tibetans, were they the ones, the Bedouins were in the desert w(ren't they. The
Blue Men.
Q. Bedouins are generally out in the deserts living in tents.
A. Yeah, these were people living in the woods and stuff, living in the moundns. They wese the
ones who were the pilots,
Q. Mountain people? Like gypsies?
A. No just Moroccans.
Q. So what did you like about it? Did you like the color, the Middle Eastern Design?
A. Oh we'd go a week or two, get a car and drive all over. We drove Fiteenbundred miles in
Morocco,
Q. Ever ride on a camel?
A. Oh, yes, We did that in Egypt, 1
Q. Would you rather go to Morocco than Egypt?
A. Well, I like them both. Better than France. (Chuckle) Paris, let's put it that way.
Q. You.like the exotic lands?
A. Yeah, but let me tell you, and this came up with that was down at
Tulane in summer school with her anthropalogy. Ancient
her, "By the way,
when you get into anthropology and things like that did
about the cave
paintings in Southern France?'She said, "Oh yes." I
the cave which
is near Clairmont,
Q. You have a book on that.
A. That's the cave, We bought a book on that. She said, "Oh yes, we've slides on. . .I said,
"Your mother was there when it was openad to the public in 1961 and we
airlocks to get into it and they discovered after five years that they had to
because thek breathing was bringing in maisture so we got in there and. .
one of thc kids that fell in the hole when his dog, they were out running
hole. It was the very beginning of World War TI, 1940 or '41,
French kid fell into this hole, or his dog did, and he went down to get him o
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