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September 17, 2005
Post Constitutional Nostalgia?
On the way to the beach, I stopped at a yard sale where I found a curiosity from 1964 -- an actual boxed game called "Allegiance: the Constitution Game." (It's a game to help children learn about the Constitution, if you can imagine such a thing.)
I was ten years old when that game came out, and I remember they actually used to teach children to be proud of the Constitution, and of American freedom. Of course, today it's little more than nostalgia.
Finally, I tried to hold Coco still for a picture, but she just kept kissing me.
UPDATE (09/19/05): As commenter Mary Ann points out below (and in her blog), Friday happened to be Constitution Day, and I wrote this post on Saturday, September 17. As Mary Ann makes clear, though, "every school and college receiving federal money must teach about the Constitution on Sept. 17..."(Just trying to comply with the law, folks!) Seriously, though, isn't it tough to get kids to attend class on a Saturday? posted by Eric on 09.17.05 at 08:49 PM
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And what luck that you found it the day after Constitution Day! Mary Ann · September 18, 2005 11:18 PM These are the best pictures of Coco yet... what a beautiful animal! Donna B. · September 19, 2005 07:41 AM THANK YOU FOR THE SWEET COMMENTS! (Coco thanks you too, Donna, of course....) Eric Scheie · September 19, 2005 04:27 PM |
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Excellent. I never saw that particular game, but it looks fascinating.
When I was 10, I was in the 5th grade, Mrs. Smith's class, in which we learned something about the history of the United States, the various states themselves, and the provinces of Canada. We did reports on states. My brother Dave did Hawaii and I did Alaska. Our parents gave me a book on Hawaiian mythology for Christmas the next year, still one of my favorite books, Hawaiian Myths of Earth, Sea, and Sky.
Back in 4th grade, we learned about the history of our own state, Oregon, my Oregon, from the Lewis and Clark expedition on. In 6th grade, we studied the entire Western hemisphere, the lands to our south. I was getting interested in Mayan and Aztec mythology at that time. Later, in 7th grade, we learned a bit about the evils of Communism. Unfortunately, I was Communist-leaning (socialist) at that point, so it took a few years for the lesson to finally sink in.
Textbooks of that age explained our Constitutional form of government and had charts contrasting Freedom vs. Communism.
The style of it all!
Excellent photos once again. You are a master photographer.