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First House I Remember – Colorado

Oh, if the walls of our house could talk. A cliché I know, but really. What if they could? What could they reveal? Triggering Childhood Memories One of the writer’s notebook activities I used in the past with students to help generate memories is to draw the layout of a childhood home. In June 2020, I wrote about a fragment of time at our home in Grand Junction, Colorado. The house in Grand Junction on Belford Avenue is the first house I can really remember from childhood. My mom loved that house for the simple fact that it was in Colorado, the place where she…

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