Lee S. Manwill, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Luke Kelly, July 11, 2001: Saving the legacy tape no. 267

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Lee Manwill Jul 11,2001 LUK: Oh, we'd love to hear them. LEE: My dad was a leader of the high school band th re wh r he taught band, nd h played what he called a cornet. They call it a trumpet today. Rup rt still has in th middle of town a little park, and the business section surrounds the park. And there was a bandstand in the middle for all of the holidays. Dad would have the high school band there playing. We'd go there on the 41 h of July and other holidays. And before that, when I was about five I guess, before I remember these holidays, they had a baby show upstairs in a hall above one of the businesses facing the little park. Dad liked to clown around. And he made up like a big, old, fat sloppy woman. And with Blackjack gum it looked like he had two teeth out. I was about four or five years old and he made me up as a baby. And one of my buddies, who was the same age, was made up too. He got a great big twin baby carriage, and as he walked around the square, around the park, he kept asking, "Where's the baby show? I want to show off my twin babies." And he trained us to sock each other with our hats and make a ruckus and everything. I remember this very well. It was fun. Finally, he got us to the baby show. And, of course, it finally came out who he was. Everybody knew him, but he was made up like this big, fat, sloppy old woman that nobody recognized him at first. I remember that situation very well. There was a lot of other fun things there. My mother's father lived in Rupert also, and he was a beekeeper. And he used to take me out in the bees. I put on the screen hat 2