COME REMINISCE WITH ME
by Dr. Emmett Murray
Links to Take You There
Page MY STORIES:
Our Old Neighborhood
The Hazel Avenue Murrays
Page Acknowledgements
Dedication
Foreword: Come Reminisce with Me
Page Days of Innocence
1. Two Young Boys Discover Fire
2. Lost in Buffalo
3. Foaming at the Mouth
4. Two Family Quests with My Sister, Mary
5. Highway to Oklahoma
6. Two Doors East and Two Doors West
Page Grade School Years
7. My Most Memorable Grade School Teacher
8. A Saturday Night in Lima, 1930's Style
THE MOVIES IN LIMA -- MUSEUM AUDIO
9. What I Learned from a Boyhood Chum
10. "Someday, I'll Live There"
11. Horace Mann Grade School, Revisited
12. The Day the Circus Came To Town
13. The Playground at Horace Mann School
Page My Adventures Expand
14. Our Comical Neighbor, Perry
15. My Newspaperin' Days
16. A Tribute to Uncle Charlie
17. Some of My Best Friends Were Dogs
18. My Jobs as a Boy in the 1930's
19. My First Cigarette at the Football Game
Page Life in the '30s
20. The Sounds of Lima in the 1930's
21. Bums, Hobos and Knights of the Open Road
22. Our Entertainment Indoors
DILLINGER IN LIMA -- MUSEUM EXHIBIT
23. Aunt Lydia and Uncle Ray
24. The Clothes We Wore
25. Aunt Lu and Uncle Charlie, Revisited
26. Outdoor Entertainment
27. Holidays the Way I Remember Them
28. Some Smells and Tastes from A Bygone Time
Page Leaving Home
29. The Murrays of Hazel Avenue Take on WWII
30. "Here Come the Murrays!"
31. Doubling Back: My Introduction to the Army
32. My Entry into the Tall Tale Contest
Page Odds and Ends
33. The Singing in My Life
34. The First Doctor in Allen County, Ohio

EARLY MEDICINE IN LIMA -- MUSEUM AUDIO
POLIO -- IRON LUNG EXHIBIT AT MUSEUM
35. Some Memories That Fell Through the Cracks
Page Afterwords
36. Storytelling in Dad's Life (By Robb Murray)
38. More to Come!
Page Biographical Sketch
Page Neat Things a Kid Could Learn in the 1930s

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