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Joyces tells us what it was like to go to three different primary schools - Peterborough, East Adelaide and Magill Schools in South Australia
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Joyce talks about playing basketball (netball) and tennis with the school teams and her structured PE lessons at primary school.
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Judith recounts how she worked with her mother to fundraise to build a school at Loftus where she lived. Then at 8 years of age Judith attended Griffith Primary School, where her lifelong love of reading began.
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Ruth tells of her mother bottling fruits and vegetables and storing them in the cellar on Seventh East in Salt Lake City, Utah and how she caught the family member that was "snitching" the food since it was disappearing.
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Bill recalls the delight he got from getting his first motor bike in Adelaide in the 1930's.
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When I was about four years old, mom and dad had finished the home on the farm at East Garland, Utah where I would grow up. We had been living in Tremonton in two different homes, at different times, on North Tremont Street where my grandfather, W.A. Adams had remodeled and...
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Bill talks about playing card games and table tennis during his school years. And tells us how sailing became one of his loves.
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Bill Corey went to school in the 1920's. In those days the local school had one teacher and in this short audio Bill talks about life as a school boy in those days just after the First World War.
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Thanks Annie for this one. I actually had to think. I mainly remember childhood as either dance lessons, gymnasitics, and then finally for many many years, swim practice. So I came home from school and went straight to practice. So not too much time for games. I was a serious youngster!...
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My maternal great-grandmother, Hilje Mulder Folkers, and I had a special relationship when I was a very young, and this relationship still affects me emotionally some 65 years later. Opoo had lost her husband before I was born, and she was living with my grandparents, Hermannus Thiessens and Henrietta Folkers. When...
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If you picture a valley as a bowl or a long trough between lines of mountains, Caney is not in a valley. But Urban S. Gibbs, a patriarch who had the stern, unforgiving look of John Brown, was President of our bank and keeper of Caney’s money. He called his bank...
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My youngest daughter, Melanie, would have enjoyed 'The Howdy Doody Show' as a ventriliquist in her own right!
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