What kinds of games did you play with your siblings? Did you have lots of toys as a kid, or did you let your imagination run wild? How did your play area encourage your play?
You’ve tuned in (again, I hope!) to you’re listening to radio revel, Season three: Four decades. In this episode, Children’s games, I flip through the photo album of how my brother, Bob, and my sister, Kate, made up our own games and played them. We were isolated as kids, we lived in the middle of corn fields, we only had each other to spend time with. These are some of those imaginative things we did to fill long summer days, outdoors, almost totally unsupervised.
If you played make-believe or made-up games, I’d love to add them to the Everyman Biography Project, where I’m trying to collect stories from regular old folks about their lives, stories that so often get lost in the passing of time and generations. Send me an email with your story and I’ll put it on the list for a future satellite episode.
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