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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Le Manwill Jul 11 2001 and the gloves. I never did get stung that I remember. But h was u d t it that half the time he'd take his hat off, and he'd get stung five or six times mayb . It was l ss than a mosquito bite to him. But I do remember grandad Stewart, my mother's father. And it was kind of fun growing up there. I went to school at the Lincoln School in Rupert. First of all I was a very curious child. My older sister taught me how to read. She said I taught myself before I went to school. I'd get the comic strips from the Sunday paper and I'd say, "What does this word mean, and how do you pronounce it?" She'd give me the answer and I'd remember it. Now this is another incident concerning reading. She would take me to the library in town and get the little kiddies books. She'd take them home and I'd read them. This was a year before I started school. LUK: Oh, wow! LEE: Anyway, on the way home one day-they were building a new library, and they had put in the basement of it, a concrete basement, and the basement window openings. But they hadn't built it up any higher. And they were waiting for the concrete to harden I suppose. And we were just coming back from the old library to go home. She was taking me by the hand, and I saw this new building going up. And, of course, it was only as high as the foundation then. So I ran over there, and looked down on the basement floor, a concrete floor, and I saw a big clot of dirt close by. And I thought, gee, that would be neat to see that crumble on the floor. So I picked it up and threw it into the basement 3