When I was a little girl, almost every day we would go to see my Gram and Grampa Beebe. Some days while there we kids would play outside. There was a big yard to play in and a boy my brothers age that lived next door.
Other days we would play in the house while Mom spoke with Gram. Sometimes we would watch television which was more fun than at our home because Gram had 13 channels instead of our one. Other times I remember playing with Gram's button can.
Gram had a coffee can full of all different types of buttons. I never did know where they all came from but it was so much fun to get to take a large handfull of buttons from the can and see how many of each kind I had in that handful. Sometimes I got to use a needle and thread and string the like buttons together. I think some of my favorite buttons in the can were the kind that looked almost like black berries with their ridges and bumps and roundness.
At other times we were allowed to get paper and draw pictures. Gram had a large roll of paper like would be used to make newspapers. I am not sure at all where she got this but it was one of the favorites for use at her house. Sometimes it was just a small bit we would tear or cut off and then use one of the thin hard lap boards to lean against while we drew. Gram had crayons and colored pencils for us to use on these papers. I can't say that I remember any of the small pictures that we drew but I do remember sometimes taking a peice of paper big enough to trace around a small body. Sometimes I would be the one traced but others times it was my youngest sister. Then we would draw our faces and clothes onto the traced body.
I wish I knew whatever became of the button cans or the newspaper pictures that we drew. I just know that it was fun for my brother, sisters and I to be able to play with these items whenever we went to Gram's house.
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That roll of paper actually was the type that was used for printing newspapers. Uncle Tommy brought it home when he worked as a print setter at Suffolk Life in Westhampton. Nancy worked there,too, at one point.
Oh...and the buttons came from a fabric shop on Newtown Lane. I forget how it happened that we got so many of them, but it had something to do with a contest that they'd run to see who would bring in the most buttons, if I remember right. I think maybe Dad got them when he was the mailman there. I've forgotten!
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