Bugle
The Army heavily influenced the CCC. Members awoke, ate and fell asleep to bugle calls. Johnny Buskowiak remembered playing “Taps” each night and hearing it echo across the Lake City camp. This 1898 bugle is of a standard design adopted by the Army in 1892 and still in use today.
MNHS 3D Collections 70.68.6
Transcript
The other thing was the Taps, that’s right. See, I took my trumpet to the camp there and every night at 9:00, I would go out under the flagpole and I’d play the Taps. Oh it was the most beautiful thing because the Taps, you played it across the three miles of Lake City and then it bounced back against hills on the other side and boy, it’d just be beautiful. Ta-ta-TA, ta-ta-TA. And I played the bugle every night at 9:00 underneath the flag. Oh boy, that was beautiful. Yes, you bet. And then the lights would go off right, and it was done.