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Uncle Leo's farm ~ Walter's memoir
Life of Walter
Walter's memoir: Uncle Leo's farm
Walter: ... all this whispering but the telephone picks it up, i mean that makes a big difference.
One of the things which it had, it had cars in which the sugar beets were transported and they ran on rails, I mean they were really sort of miniature freight cars and they were pushed by horses. And of course that was intriguing, and those rails ran alongside of canals which were used to water the fields in order to grow the sugar beets, and in addition to water the canals were planted with poplars and I've always liked poplars, I've been trying to get people to grow poplars here but I'm told they're really a very untidy bir- uh tree because the leaves fall off and stuff like that, so...
The best place for them is not on a lawn but alongside a canal where they grow naturally, they like to have a lot of water.
And then, well what else... My uncle had a private garden and a gardener who grew the vegetables that people ate, and it was a big garden, it was I would say, well, maybe three quarters of an acre and it was divided into parts, and in the middle of the garden there was a rain barrel, and in the rain barrel there was usually a frog who had made it his home, and that was always very intriguing to me. I mean in the city of Vienna which was such a big city, you wouldn't find a wooden rain barrel with a frog living in it so that was a great miracle to me.
We'll make another pause.
One of the things which it had, it had cars in which the sugar beets were transported and they ran on rails, I mean they were really sort of miniature freight cars and they were pushed by horses. And of course that was intriguing, and those rails ran alongside of canals which were used to water the fields in order to grow the sugar beets, and in addition to water the canals were planted with poplars and I've always liked poplars, I've been trying to get people to grow poplars here but I'm told they're really a very untidy bir- uh tree because the leaves fall off and stuff like that, so...
The best place for them is not on a lawn but alongside a canal where they grow naturally, they like to have a lot of water.
And then, well what else... My uncle had a private garden and a gardener who grew the vegetables that people ate, and it was a big garden, it was I would say, well, maybe three quarters of an acre and it was divided into parts, and in the middle of the garden there was a rain barrel, and in the rain barrel there was usually a frog who had made it his home, and that was always very intriguing to me. I mean in the city of Vienna which was such a big city, you wouldn't find a wooden rain barrel with a frog living in it so that was a great miracle to me.
We'll make another pause.
Kendal on Hudson, Sleepy Hollow, NY
June 2006
Sarah Poyet
videotape recordings | tape 01 clip 004
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