"You know, the businessmen in town had quite a time making it too. When the farmer don't have money, they don't either.
"You know there were 'open nights' on Wednesdays and Saturday nights to get people in to town and trade. They would have free shows. I remember they had free shows in Exeter. It was in the back end of the fellow that hatched out chickens. There was a big wall they painted white, and we all sat there as best we could and watched the free show. That brought people into town on Wednesdays and Saturday nights."
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Carla Due was born in Denmark. Her parents emigrated to Nebraska when she was about two years old, but they decided the trip would be too dangerous for Carla. She grew up with her grandparents. When she was about 10 or 12 her folks tried twice to get her to come to the U.S. but she resisted. Finally, when she was 16 she crossed the Atlantic alone on a ship. She helped her parents farm, learned English, met her husband Bernard at a dance and then helped him farm.
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