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Denise Quinlan

Kindergarten and First Grade

According to my report cards I started Kindergarten in Lakeland, Florida.  The Happy Days Kindergarten at 926 South Tennessee Avenue.  I also went to Kindergarten at East Islip Union School in East Islip, N.Y..   What I remember most about Kindergarten was nap time.  I hated it.  Girls had to wear...
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Denise Quinlan

Monopoly

Once in a while my Dad would take us for a visit to Chick's house.  They had a concrete back patio that had a 2" lip all the way around the outside edges. In the winter Chick would fill it with water and the kids could ice skate on it. We...
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Denise Quinlan

Red Roosters

We seemed to move between New York and Florida more than once.  On one of these return trips to New York, Ralph Kraemer, the only father I ever knew, picked us up from the airport.  He had rented a house for us to live in.  What I remember most about this...
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Denise Quinlan

My Mom

My Mom hated cooking.  One night she was draining the water off the spaghetti. The lid slipped and the spaghetti went down the drain.  Another time she was cooking pancakes.  The pancake stuck to the pan.  Mom opened the door to the trailer and threw it out, pan and all.  Mom...
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Denise Quinlan

The Ditch

We were still living in Florida when Dennis and I went down to the Ditch to go fishing.  Dennis was in Kindergarten and we would go after he got home from school.  He only went to school for half a day so it must have been Kindergarten. We were not supposed...
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Denise Quinlan

Blessed as a Child

I didn't think so at the time but my life was truly blessed as a child.  My brother and I ran away, I was 12 and he was 14.  We lived in Port Jefferson, NY above a little grocery store.  On my way to school each morning I would tear a...
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Denise Quinlan

After School Fun

We lived in Florida in another trailer park when I was about 7 or 8 years old.  After school we played King of the Mountain, Cops and Robbers, Hide and Seek.  We stayed out until it started to get dark. One of the teenage girls in the park referred to her parents as Sir...
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Denise Quinlan

Florida and marbles

When Dennis was in Kindergarten we lived in a trailer park in Florida.  I played with a little girl that had "Shirley Temple" curls.  Oh how I wanted curly hair.  Everyday her Mom would comb out each curl one at a time.  I used to think how fun that must be. ...
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Denise Quinlan

Home and Surroundings during Early Childhood

My first day of school was a little traumatic.  We were living with the family that had a dog with different color eyes.  They were an older couple. The lady peeled potatoes every afternoon.  She would open a brown paper bag and spread it out on the table.  Then she would...
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Denise Quinlan

Earliest Childhood Memory

My earliest childhood memory is being in a hospital.  My mother had gone away on a trip with one of her boyfriends.  I was with a sitter and ended up with a severe case of meloncoly, otherwise known as depression in children.  I ended up in the hospital for two and a half months....
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Gail Park

Who are your villagers?

We all know the phrase, "It takes a village to raise a child," but have you ever applied it to your own experience? Who are the influential people in your life, past or present, who have shaped and influenced you? Here's my top 10: 1. & 2. My parents. Of course....
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Heather McCray

From Nahant to Wausau

From Nahant to Wausau
  On the first day of 1942, my great-grandfather, Ralph Boyer, was living in Nahant, MA with his two young sons and pregnant wife, Babe.  Three weeks before, Pearl Harbor had been bombed and the United States had declared war.  By the spring of 1942, Ralph had accepted a new job...
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Dick Pellek

Bath Time...On the road...again!

Bath Time...On the road...again!
  On the road …again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Bath Time…On the road…again!   Based on the perceived popularity of bath time as a subject of some legacy stories, the Footloose Forester paused to daydream about his own experiences.  The subject matter might...
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Graham Maskell

Parents view of education and first days at school

Graham talks about his parents philosophy of education for their children and describes his keenness to start school.  
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Bill Corey

My school years and teachers

My school years and teachers
Bill attended a rural school for the first six years of his schooling and when he moved to Adelaide he attended Adelaide High School.  In particular he remembers most of his teachers throughout his school years.  
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Judith Black

The first years of my education

The first years of my education
Judith parents believed in a good education for their children.  Judith remembers at the age of 6 attending the Sutherland Infant school.  
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Joyce Pounsett

My education

My education
Joyce started school in Peterborough at the age of 5.  She did not attend pre-school and was very keen to learn.  She enjoyed her years at school and was educated at 5 different schools over the years.    
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Ruth Henderson

Early School days

Early School days
Ruth remembers listening to the story of Madeleine being read to her when she was 4 years old, and of starting school at 5 years of age at Parkside Infant School    
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Annette Lorenz

Goodwood Orphanage and early school years

Goodwood Orphanage and early school years
Annette talks about the 18 months she spent living in the Goodwood Orphange when she was 4 years of age.  She goes on to tell of how she enjoyed her years at Marryatville Primary School when she lived above the Rising Sun Hotel in Kensington.
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Pat Carlson

Schooldays in an orphange

Pat talks about her life in the Nazareth House orphange in Plymouth, Devon. Here she recalls the schooling she received, a far cry from school in 2013.  
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