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Walter Chrysler

lines on the record: 52
first: 2020-06-09
most recent: 2020-06-09
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“The sun was up. For years kitchen fire was the only heat we knew in the winter. Often I had to scamper barefoot across a floor where snow had drifted through the cracks of badly fitting windows. I shared a bed with my big brother Ed. Before breakfast Ed had cows to milk, and I had other work to do. Sometimes I was sent early to get the soup meat. Until I was six or seven the few hundred people who lived in Ellis almost never got beef. We all ate buffalo meat. The rump was what my mother wanted. She would put a great hunk of this meat into a big black pot in which she made her soup. I have never tasted any other soup quite so good. A certain soft scraping sound that I hear faintly sometimes in a barbershop is like an echo of a harsh and loud scrape that I used to hear in our kitchen when I was a boy.”
2020-06-09 · Founders · #130 Walter Chrysler · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“By the time I became conscious of my dependence on her, my mother's large dark eyes were set in a big, powerful woman of the frontier. I was the third of four children she bore in Kansas railroad towns in the eighteen seventies before the prairies had been tamed. She ate buffalo meat to nourish her sons. Sometimes now I see her eyes looking at me, miraculously, out of the face of one of my grandchildren. Sometimes in a mirror I catch a fleeting trace of her in my own eyes. At such times I hope afresh that they were right, those neighbors who would cast a nod at me and say Walt takes after his ma. Work? Of course a boy had to work in a household where my mother was the ruler. She worked all the time herself and had prodigious energy. What awakened me every day was the clanging of iron lids on her cook stove.”
2020-06-09 · Founders · #130 Walter Chrysler · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source