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What, When, Where, Why
Visitors to the museum have been as interested as to why I collected something,
or when and where I found it, as they have been as to the what it is. I will
attempt to answer these questions about many of the items in the museum. However,
I must warn you that in order to do that, I will also need to explain why I was
at the where, when I collected the what to explain the why.
Indian Reservation
My father was a minister. When I was five years old, he announced that we were
moving from California to Arizona. He said we were moving so he could be a
missionary to the Apache Indians, on the San Carlos Indian Reservation.
It had only been about two years since we had moved from Tennessee to California.
My parents with their five boys, ages two years to eight years old, an aunt
and uncle with their two daughters ages two years and eleven years old, and
my grand parents had all sold their homes in Millersville, Tennessee and
bought old military buses that had been used for moving soldiers. They
converted their busses into living quarters. Today they would have been
called hippie buses or hippie trailers, but that was in the late 1940's
so hippies had not been invented yet. We all used the not hippie trailers
or busses for living quarters for the long journey out west.
Our trailer was actually quite nice for the 1940s. On the back you will see a water cooler,
and on the top of the trailer was a water tank. During the day, the sun would heat the water tank
and by the time we would stop for the night, we would have hot water. Dad ran a vacume cleaner hose
from the truck to the trailer so mother could comunicate with him while he was driving. At the front of the
trailer there were two full size beds set up as bunk beds. That is where the five boys would sleep. At the
back of the trailer was dad and mom's bedroom. In between the two bedrooms was a little kitchen, dinning table
for four, and a couch that made into a bed.
We thought we were right in style.
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