Was it just during football season? I know it had to be a special deal to wear pants. And when the boys moved an outhouse to the Tivy campus and set off a cherry bomb in the boy's bathroom - all of these things, they would be in juvenile detention today. Another fashion statement was to wear your cardigan sweater backward. There were just special things associated with the fifties. I just think of it as an innocent time - maybe I was just innocent. At a slumber party we may have had 1 cigarette and passed it around. Absolutely. In my case, we would have slumber parties at my house, our group called ourselves the Kookaburras and we would go up and down the street doing the Kookaburra cry out the window. We just thought we were ever so clever. It was the trill of the Kookaburra bird. So, we would have slumber parties at my house which was up on a hill with a driveway going down and bushes all along the edge and we hid our cigarettes under the nineteenth bush. All the Kookaburras to this day remember the nineteenth bush. Did you smoke them out there or in the house? We went to the nineteenth bush. You mentioned the Peterson farm. Can you tell us what that was? The Peterson farm is out on Peterson Road across from Our Lady of the Hills High School. Where the high school is now, they used to keep some exotics out there. They had horses and a big stable but mainly what we used it for, there was a camp house way, way back in the middle of it and that was where we would always go as a family during hunting season. It was just a great big one room with a kitchen and a bathroom and there would be many, many family members sleeping on cots in one great big room with a fireplace going. We had a wonderful old black man named Bunk. During hunting season he would just appear like magic. I don't know his full name or where he came from, but he would always appear at that time. He would take my cousin Dash and me out into the bushes and carve us minute little figures from little limbs and little pieces of wood and I think if I had those little animals now what a treasure that would be. He would do all the cooking. Was he from Kerrville? I really don't know. We'd go to the farm for hunting and we'd go to Camp Eagle for fishing. That was Charlie's other big love was to go to Camp Eagle and fish. And that was owned by the Petersons also?
Interview with Beverly Peterson Sullivan who lived in Kerrville since she was 4 years old and is a member of the prominent Peterson family. The family was responsible for building the Sid Peterson Hospital and Peterson Foundation. She and her husband John Sullivan (deceased) have 3 children. The interview traces her memories of the Peterson family and her upbrining in Kerrville. Copies of photos are included at the end of the transcript.
Interview with Beverly Peterson Sullivan who lived in Kerrville since she was 4 years old and is a member of the prominent Peterson family. The family was responsible for building the Sid Peterson Hospital and Peterson Foundation. She and her husband John Sullivan (deceased) have 3 children. The interview traces her memories of the Peterson family and her upbringing in Kerrville. Copies of photos are included at the end of the transcript.
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