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As they reminisce about their childhood, thirteen interviewees chronicle life in Texas and other parts of the West during the early part of the twentieth century.
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1992 by Robert Flynn and Susan Russell All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Flynn, Robert, 1932 When I was just your age / by Robert Flynn and Susan Russell p. cm. Includes index. Summary: As they reminisce about their childhood, thirteen interviewees chronicle life in Texas and other parts of the West during the early part of the twentieth century. ISBN 0-929398-39-4 1. United StatesSocial life and customs20th centuryjuvenile literature. 2. Interviews United StatesJuvenile literature. 3. Oral historyJuvenile literature. [1. United States Social life and customs20th century. 2. TexasSocial life and customs. 3. Interviews.] I. Russell, Susan, 1946 .II. Title. E 169.R956 1992 973.91'092-dc20 [B] 92-15460 CIP AC
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To those who told their stories and to the children who asked and listened.
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Contents
Foreword
ix
Acknowledgments
xi
Introduction
xiii
Eloise Benavides
1
Horton Foote
13
Maury Maverick, Jr.
25
Naki Breen
37
Stanley Marcus
49
John Armstrong
65
Paul Baker
79
Fannie Chism
93
Ruben Munguia
107
Wanda Ford
119
Eck and Leroy Horton
129
John Banks
145
Maggie Cousins
157
Ideas and Activities
169
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Foreword
A democracywhich depends for survival on an informed electorate, sufficiently interested in the nation to exercise the franchiseowes intrinsic obligations to its youth. In the turbulent climate of today's society, where long held assumptions are beginning to fray, children lack the security of ritual institutions and the guidance of memory. They yearn for the values that will not fail them. It behooves us to provide all our children with the aspects of their environment which auger stability, solace and inspiration. We must give them a sense of place, a feeling of belonging to the past and the future, as well as the present, and a recognition of beauty and order. We must confer on them a responsibility for their place of being, which inevitably fosters a love of country.
MARGARET COUSINS
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Acknowledgments
Grateful acknowledgment is made to:
The Learning About Learning Foundation and the original staff who created the Thinking Historically curriculum: Jearnine Wagner, Julia Jarrell, Susie Monday and Cindy Herbert.
The National Endowment for the Humanities, for making it possible.
The Alice Kleberg Meyer Foundation, whose generous assistance allowed us to expand the program into a book.
The children who traveled with us to collect additional interviews: Rana Emerson, Benjamin Espy, Thomas Espy and Cory Russell.
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Introduction
History is gathered from documents, artifacts and memory. Of these three, memory is the one that serves when the subject is childhood, and that is why we have made memories the focus of this book.
When I Was Just Your Age began as part of the Humanities program of The Learning About Learning (LAL) Educational Foundation in San Antonio, Texas. LAL developed ways of actively and personally connecting children to the past. Those experiences helped children perceive patterns of behavior, how people invented their lives and in a larger sense their culture.
In 1985, the National Endowment for the Humanities funded a project called Thinking Historically, that is, the process of seeing oneself as a part and product of all that has happened before. To enter that past, the children collected oral histories. They learned how oral stories differ from written ones, how Native American stories, for instance, have a less linear development than the stories they were accustomed to reading or hearing in school. They began to recognize the quick of the story. They encountered real diversity. They discovered that families can be rich in some things while being poor in others. They gained new perspectives.
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