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STORIES FOR THE HAMPDEN CENTENNIAL BOOK
by Norma Ruth Skaar
Why am I writing this? I’ve been looking with interest at the Hampden web-site and was prompted to send Julie a couple memory short paragraphs “I suggested that perhaps people would be helped to contribute if they had some “prompts.” She, as the consummate coordinator, delegated the task to the person suggesting it. I’m willing to try within my limits!!!!!!!
In an effort to help you start here are a few memory prompts. Please understand the prompts I am suggesting are limited to “my memory” (which is slipping fast) and that I am sitting in Austin, TX as I write this. I graduated in 1952 and was in the first grade when WWII started. Truth is, memories before the mid-forties and after the fifties are really sketchy. Therefore, all this may ONLY be relevant to that period of time. The 75th Anniversary booklet fills in the early times to a certain extent, and that leaves the rest up to us before it is forgotten. Try thinking in terms of the decades!!
Contributions are needed from everyone if the “history book” is to be complete, interesting and fun for everyone. Please write at least one or two of your memories. What has made small Hampden particularly notable, was and is, the incredible sense of community spirit and
everyone's’
willingness to pull together and help. This has to be an “everyone” and “everyone” has many stories.
Again, what would you like to read about in the memory book? Do you have a partial memory of an event? Perhaps you could appeal for help with a question on the site and others could fill in or cooperate on the story.
Just a thought if you need help starting to write/put stories together:
When was it?____________________________________
Who was involved?_______________________________
Why did it occur? ________________________________
What made it memorable? _________________________
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a detailed outline to get your memory going .
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