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 Memory
Books/Memory Boxes is a wonderful new tool for Activity
Directors, Music and Recreational Therapists, family members
and caregivers alike. Now you can afford to purchase a
wonderful set of materials which allow you to look at
and discuss nostalgic, family-oriented memorabilia with
elders individually or in a group. This series has four
volumes, each available with a recording and a book. The
format for each volume includes four memory-inducing topics,
pictures and discussion questions for each of the four
topics, and a wonderful singalong for you to use with
elders (to really get their memories flowing!). Use
it at coffee hour, for one on one visits, or make a brand
new activity, which is sure to be a success!
Available
Soon in Downloadable
Book, Video and CD Formats
Volume
1:
Contents
of Volume I
Topic: Childhood
Introduction
Body
of the book
Original
Introductory Music
(Refer
to Accompanying CD, Cassette, or Video)
Photographs
1-4
(Babyhood/Toddlerhood)
Discussion
Questions
An
Original Musical Interlude
(Refer
to Accompanying CD, Cassette, or Video)
Photographs
5-8
(Moms,
Dads, and Children)
Discussion
Questions
An
Original Musical Interlude
(Refer to Accompanying CD, Cassette, or Video)
Photographs
9-12
(Families,
Homes and Experiences)
Discussion
Questions
Original
Closing Music
(Refer
to Accompanying CD, Cassette, or Video)
A
Nostalgic Sing-a-long!
Appendix
A
Listing of
Music-Outreach Nostalgic & Uplifting Books & Recordings
Abundant Change Books and Recordings
Published by Music-Outreach Publishing
(This
volume's singalong features popular, folk, and patriotic
songs)
| TABLE
OF CONTENTS, SING-A-LONG #1 |
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Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland
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Pack Up Your Troubles
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Ain't We Got Fun?
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America
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Over There
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Mary's A Grand Old Name
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Harrigan
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Annie Laurie
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Aura Lee
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Take Me Out to the Ballgame
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Cuddle up A Little Closer
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- School
Days
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I'm Always Chasing Rainbows
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Shine On Harvest Moon
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Beautiful Dreamer
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Home Sweet Home
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She'll Comin' Round the Mountain
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Yellow Rose of Texas
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For He's A Jolly Good Fellow
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Auld Lang Syne
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Battle Hymn of the Republic
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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.
Page 40
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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