02:59

Ruth Deutschmann

Benjamin Epp

St. Anton

2008-08-19

Sylvia Manning - Baumgartner

Nicole D´Incecco

1935

And - that's the way we grew up. At first we worked a little, then more and more. We went skiing whenever we could even though we didn't have proper equipment. As I wrote in the book we ski jumped down near the church, in the Strolzer Loch, that's where we jumped. And when we were fed up with that we went skiing on the other side the following day. The lift hadn't been built yet so we had to do everything on foot. - - So we went skiing or built a ski jump after school- for jumping. Or we went to jump over the snow drifts which the wind had blown over onto the meadow right beside the house. We also built snowmen until it got dark and mother came and called or whistled - she could whistle! - for us to come home or go down to the house. Usually we didn't listen to her. That went well ? until she called or whistled for the second time. But the third time my father would come and then we reacted quickly! Father was the stricter one .. Then we had to do our homework - as I wrote in my book - we had to finish our homework. We were covered in snow, from head to toe. The snow stuck to our loden trousers, whole clumps of it. Then we had to go to the barn. We could get there underground from the house - there was a very old tunnel under that path there and through that we reached the stable. Where we are now is where the stable and hay loft used to be. The hay was up on top and the cattle below. We usually had eight to ten cows and a lot of sheep and goats.