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Show DOROTHY J. BEUTLER MARCH 26, 2001 South and in the evening you'd turn on the-we had a radio-it was a httle-httle! I Inean they're big, not httle like you see now, but you got a lot of static. You'd hsten to things like One Man 's Family and Amos and Andy and I'n1 trying to think of that n1ystery one with the squealong door But the best way to listen was to turn out the hghts and lay on the floor around the radio You can't see anything, but you could hear and whole families would hsten In, any neighbors, not everybody had a radio BBL: DOR: You did that all the tune or was that a weekend thing or every night? Not every night. No Well they went off the air, I don't know what time. You'd hsten to those things. No, the land of stuff we dtd was Just Hide-and-go-Seek In weed patches. You know, you've got flowing wells. We had no Indoor plumbing, no Indoor water, no central heat-It was a coal stove. But, you know, you're running out there, you're ruiunng to hide and you're running 1n the run-off water, bouncing through a ditch, a httle ditch, or tnp on weeds. But It was fun. We played a lot. We played Kick the Can and Run Sheepie Run. We had a barn. What's this got to do With-(laughs)? BBL: Well, what we want to do IS look at the war expenence fron1 the perspective of your whole life. But I wanted to ask you about your fnends . Who were son1e of your good fnends when you were growing up? Were there a lot of kids around when you were grow1ng up? DOR: My best fnend, when her cousin wasn't there or when we weren't mad at each other, had a brother the smne age as Iny older brother They were two years older than us and then she had two younger brothers and quite a few years later, a sister There was one other family Beverly was our age, she was the oldest, but she always had to have her younger sister and brother who had to follow her Beverly had to carry her 10 |
