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Memory Books/Memory Boxes, Vol. 1
A Reminiscence series for the Elderly with Memorabilia, Discussions & Singalong
in Four Volumes

A unique, innovative, affordable new set of materials
designed to be used with elders by:

*professionals in eldercare settings
*family members & caregivers
in home, eldercare, hospital and hospice settings

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
  1. Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland
  2. Pack Up Your Troubles
  3. Ain't We Got Fun?
  4. America
  5. Over There
  6. Mary's A Grand Old Name
  7. Harrigan
  8. Annie Laurie
  9. Aura Lee
  10. Take Me Out to the Ballgame
  11. Cuddle up A Little Closer
  1. School Days
  2. I'm Always Chasing Rainbows
  3. Shine On Harvest Moon
  4. Beautiful Dreamer
  5. Home Sweet Home
  6. She'll Comin' Round the Mountain
  7. Yellow Rose of Texas
  8. For He's A Jolly Good Fellow
  9. Auld Lang Syne
  10. Battle Hymn of the Republic

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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