"Singing In The Hills", by Bill and Hazel Westfall, section one, forward through page fifty-eight. In this section, Bill and Hazel tell stories from their childhood in this first section entitled "Where Our Music Comes From." Bill and his wife Hazel talk about how they got their start in singing. It was a family tradition; everyone did some sort of singing or played an instrument. On Saturday night, there would be a big square dance, everyone would come and bring whatever instrument that the played. Some smoked pipes or cigarettes; others chewed tobacco and or drank.
             Bill and Hazel grew up singing in the fields while picking cotton, plowing the fields and doing other chores that they had. Hazel's brother died when he was young, so she had to take over his work. She says that she was a tomboy, she helped her father log, plow, and many other things that a son would normally help do.
             They speak of the Depression, and how it was so hard to get a job, much less something to eat. Gophers, frogs, pigeons, rabbits, almost anything that they could catch was fare game for dinner that night. Bill talks about how his family moved to Florida looking for work, and come to find out, if they had only went to Ohio, his father could have had a job weeks ago.
             Bill talks about going into the Navy and the effects that it had on his family. He talks about the whiskey that was stolen off of a truck one night, and paying $10 for a quart of Seagram's Seven. Bill says that he worked the generators on the ship; he worked nights because he had heard that was when the Japanese attacked at night and figured that if he was awake, they couldn't hurt him during the night .He traveled to Australia, New Guinea, Germany and many more places throughout the world. He speaks of his pay when he was in the Navy, $67 dollars a month. Bill shares about when he was in New Guinea, where the headhunters would trade the sailors' bana...