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Excerpts
from the Book
Page
35
Families,
Homes and Experiences
How
our environment shapes us…
Who
we are,
who our parents and grandparents were-
these greatly affect us.
So
does our environment,
where we come from, where we live.
What
was it like where you lived…
in your house?
in your family?
How
did this affect who you became, how you lived, and the family
and home you made.
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Photograph
4 (Families, Homes and Experiences)
Pictorial
Documentation of
Families, Homes and Experiences…
Me, as Little Lord Fauntleroy.
It was the style of the day!
Page
44
Photograph
8 (Families, Homes, and Experiences)
Pictorial
Documentation of
Families, Homes and Experiences…
If
we are lucky, we grow more prosperous,
as the years go by…
"There
will new cars, all sorts of wonderful things!…"
-David L. Purvis to young his son, the author,
after a set back in the author's youth.
The Author's Father, David Purvis
a young educator, with a snazzy new Buick Skylark
(which turned out to be a lemon! Ah, youth, live and learn!)
circa about 1965
The author as a child in the next snazzy new car- the Javelin!
Circa about 1968
Page
48
Discussion
Questions
(Families, Homes and Experiences)
In
the last section of this book, after the pictures, we had
some questions relating in particular to childhood. Now
let's broaden that a bit and discuss our childhood in relation
to our family, the home or homes we lived in, and the experiences
we had as a part of our family units living in the homes/places
in which we lived…
In
the discussion questions which follow we will ask ourselves
what we remember about our own childhoods (the time after
babyhood, but before being a teenager) in relation to our
families and the town/home in which our families lived?
We'll start our memories flowing! Let's let these questions
help us to remember particular memories or stories which
stand out in our minds, which illustrate what life was like
in our families, our houses, towns, and during the time
when you were a kid.
1.
If you have few memories of life in your family, in your
home, in your town during your childhood years, then what
do you remember being told by your parents, grandparents,
or other family members about this? What was life like then?
Questions
Continued....
(c)
2003 Michael Purvis.
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