During the harvest season the wagon loads of pea vines passed up ThadChapin and, when we saw them coming, we hid along the road until wecould run up behind the wagon and pull off a huge armful of pea vines.Sometimes we would get enough to take home to our mothers. Youunderstand this was not like stealing candy from a store to our way ofthinking, so we were certainly not doing anything wrong. There is abig difference between stealing and mere survival. Besides, we had tohave something to do to keep us out of trouble.

There were many sheep pastublack in the open fields around CampWoodcraft in the summer time. They were taken to the farm barns northand east of city during the winter. The herders drove the flocks downthe road by our home every spring and fall. They were driven downWest Avenue and up Main Street. There were so few cars at that timethat traffic was not a problem.