John Gres;g, 1925 John Wilbiaa Grem started the %gmrtaaB of Landscape Arslhiteatwe ab the3 Univcsrsity of California ;tn 1913 and wm cha3mm of that cfegartaw~ltwtil his retiresent in 3946. W3r $hose thirty-fsw reams his $Im and talents were always awailobles-for tho design of' the DsrksXarg ~uarme smzg3iaz cmgusas of %he, UaiversiB~r~for park and moreational needs in the city mil states -4 to countless istdividr.&%Xawho nsaded advice UD 1~~1dtscalp~. Bis f"r9eaad A+C, TayJlor add of kira, fitlo mu%has dona rjaors than he to d&v%loplandscape Arckitecturs 133 &heFar Vest to its proseat etatare, rm established profecsion. His bf'fiuoaacrs ss 8: teacher mii ae a consul~tin private prsctieo ba remhed far bayonif the baunbaries of his adopted 3VdP;e of Califofnia. "* This am, who mmt sa much $0 bdeasi~w~h$t@it~tura Sn Cahiforrtia, was born aoroes the oountry fr, Weam, Bsv Hmpsh%re,h Lt3t30 in an era when the tf tla 'rmd88a599 arch2tsctw would hIam aptiffed the r%adsr. An4 th@ Grogg entared the ki~s~chusettrsW~ricultural College. But %asre Ga k&d the good f~rtune $0 bscae a atudant of Pr@ 'Ucawb, khoss tihinlri~about edueatiun in lmdscapa design wm reaur?hbly ~S~~BEOAC~~far %hat %in#, im2 who 1ivd! go ~8egrof hip ~tudeatthat hs was #&a31 of %ha TamWop of LanBsce Arckikeet;uret sf the United Sta@s."* Aftar graduation, md st variety of fobs vMoh ahow olsarly fha difference betwen t;Pae pro~peetsfor the pro- fea~fonalin that byand thisp John Gram, with Frd Waugh8;s recaamadrrtion, fn 191.0 went $0 Pe~~ylvaniaS tats Callrggrs bo atart a deparkmsnt of 3imdasage gar8en;la-gand 11'2oriculture ;hn ths ~ollegssf qrimlturs under the then boaxi Thomas Porsythe Hut, Xa 1913 Hunt hating accsgtod the tlenasbip at %hs Uafversitr of CaliSosnia*a Collegs of ga8eaw arsd v&b, mad fs able to ranesbar $he tiad whem the grs~tpiass cad ~€3dEWewaxhs&4 were seedP%nga. A BsUghtFuX garma to $a&tarb%h, &, &?egg retabs 640~09 the aasaata of pazf of sew XbgSmd where he V~Ob~ou@f up. Of%mmt~~t%dat %hs assvnpQPona undarlybg the guestfona, and hmeef ly ansazed ea Bf~%[email protected] would ~b0019 h%m for its ~ZBUB$#a%, hira aades+r mcs ~ ~ b ~ 3% ~ l a . adratria& words of hia teacher adMB ~~ntieapurmd.~?~,and the moeeseaer of hi^ stutaente, give3 pwspec%ivo~LQthia S~des%yq 5319 Bsgimal CulWral fli~to;r$P~ojeofwas eet&blished %t;o .@ape reowd mtobiopaphioa1 ~temimswith persona p~o~%uea?tia ream%Ctzlifrsrnleb Ma-tw* a0 J?roject fa under t;he dir@o%itRIof wJ13.I~Barn, ~8 adW rta* miakntratfves auperv$sion of 8aaistsut T;brwSau Julirzaa j$:i&ek, md St to &Weed is4 itrs work by ~oieas~m%LLton 3. 8sw, chellman of the Bancroft Wb~arySub-ccmettee of 8h69 Ubrary Go&ttss of" We Ua%ve;~~ity.Pas8 U*&r- dew6 by thrg bojeaf wEtf eh may wpplment acs rna+fxsSal QOVIF~~%n$his muew2pt bve barn donet with Zugela C-a to the Schoal of +.miculturewit4 Dew '&8 Privxke en? P;stene.ior Kork L1vi-a~In Berkcla 3di3T&c3a?T C\B T'ij 2127Ji; -LyiJ CtwiJCUL,[g QF Belation cf the be~artaentto the College of m. 97 Cmp=&ynJG 7j-J;Pi.f m":&Ci-pj!:>CPt'W 109 Scrall, given doh area: By st-cdoatio A.&iogrrphy, fro3 ?.%ota ';;no in the ?lest &.Letter, fron d.3, Tzrylc~an Jotxi Gregg'f: retiregent CHILDHOOD AID YOUTH II #EW E#GM#D Oregg: #p knowledge of ay farafly goes bsok to my grandparents. My grandparents on my mother's side were plain, Hew England farzers, with only the local country schools for education. That was in Weare, New Hampshire. I was born therc in my grandfather'e hopla. [~sughing]My mother, I suppose the aaae as some people do today, went to her home to have her baby. That fanfly's name was Sleeper. My nother's first name was Ruth. Riess s Did your parents live near your grandparents? Greggt Yes. They went bacsk and forth at will, there was no dis- tanae in traveling. Riessr How much land did your grandfather have? Greggt Oh, it wasn't a big ranch, or anything of that sort, just one of these small New England homes. I think my grand- father's property probably covered around 60 or 70 acres. Greg<: He raised cattle for milk and sold the milk to a big company located in Boston. He vould take the milk in oms to the railroad atation and put it on the train to Boston. SO the typa of faraiag that they carried on was prinoipally raising food for osttle-as well as having a vegetable garden, Phey rai~edtheir wheat and oats and put up their hay for winter uee. That was their type of agriculture, if you want to use that all-inclusive tern?. Their business was raising milk for sale. There was 8 coafortsble living in that. And thia was in thie aioe, old Hew Englad town where most of the residents raised milk too; my grandfather wasn't the only one who had dairy cattle, The farm vas run quite successfully, and one reason was the oooperative opirit of others in the am8 town or general area. One farmer would say, #I'll help you now, and you help me when I'm ready," The next-door neighbor would help in the haying, or planting the oorn for cattle- feed. People in those days took good advant~geof the apirit of helpfulness and they got their farming done sucoessfully with that type of cooperative help without having to pay for any labor at all. f don't remember my grandfather on his farm ever employing anybody. Greggr Another situation that I don't think exists very much today Was that they could and did sell products to the local groceryman for exchange, for some augar or other food that they veren't raising at all, I om remember my grmdmother saying, "Well, Harvey,"--his first name was Barney Sleeper--"vetve got more eggs than we want( you'd better take them down to the store and get ne sonte salt," Or augar, or something they wanted along those lines, That bartering progran was all over Nev Englsad in thogo early days. Riesat And the grocer resold the things? Qregg: They vould resell such things as eggs to people who were liviq in the town and were not in the position to grow or get things themselves--like the teacher In the school, Riesss The milk, did they barter some of that? Oregg: Yes, it would be Just taken and used locally, without any treating that you see nowadays, just raw. In those days the producers of milk didn't have to go through my cheoa- ical process or anything of that sort. Riess: Were oonditions at your grandfather's farm checked by an inspector? Gregg: Oh, an inspector would come around once in a while, if I Greggr remember correctly, but there waa nothing done mienti- fically the way it ita today at all. We're oleon people and we've got a good dairy herd here and we're producing milk and we're selling it to you, just as it is. Riesst Did your mother have anp brothers? Oreggs lo, no she was the only one. Riessc So there vas never a son to help your grandfather an the farm? Greggt No, but the farm women themselves did a lot to help in the farming. Wg. gran&other, during haying time, would go out and rake after my grandfather, and any helpers he might have had in the way sf neighbors, vhile they nowed the hay with these old-fsehioned scythes, you ~OV. She would follov up and rake that hay into a pile. Those farmers Rrev a lot of their own fruif8, too; tney h:id their apples, their peaches, and my grandnother would help harvest and preserve food for winter use. I remember they had several peach cznd apple tree8 arid they would peel and slice up and string them on lines on a frame for them to dry, to have dried apples. In the future they could use them for pies. men, they'd kill Or egg a a pig every fall and have their own fat and their own meat. They didn't have any of the oil and shortening products that we have now, they had their lard right there. They'd try out the fat from slawhteriw the hog and put it down In little wooden tubs for the winter. And tbey made their own butter from their own milk--aany a tine f pumped one of these up-ad-down churns to get butter. Rieast They raised that pig themselves? Greggt Yes, same as the ohiokens and turkeys. Riesst Chiefly for th~irown use? Gregg: Or for barter at the local country store. Ries8 t Sheep? Qreggt Oh, yes, and they had the wool froa them, and grandmother --and I can remember xay great-grandmother, too--had one of these great, big spinning wheels. They raised that wool, and cardad some of it, and sold some of it to the mills. What little they did at home was for their own spinning. But those were the days of the big mills. Riesst Were they nearby? Oregg: Yes, aompared with mileages th:~twe apgreoiate out here, but not far enough that the wool couldn't be sent to these kregg t mi11s.