A variety of recollections, short stories and memories of the Phonograph by Friends of the Phonograph

 

Axel Boilesen - 1930's

The Edison Amberola - From the closet to the War, Cotesfield, NE

Betty Ann Barr - 1931

Playing School - My first memory of the Phonograph, Elba, NE

Cierra Lange, Rachel Russell and Richel Joran, 1998

Second graders learn about the Phonograph, Hawthorne Elementary School, Lincoln, NE

Doug Boilesen - 2004

Red River Rock - The "Our Song" Phenomenon

Douglas Keister - 2007

A Field Report on Obsessive Phonograph Collecting Disorder Submitted by Douglas Keister HSD AAC

Andy Orlando - 2009

Our phonograph in Dos Palos, California, and other memories

Jeff Price - 2003

A Phonographic Sunday School Lesson, Greenville, NC

Fionn Regan - 2007

An Irish singer-songwriter recalls growing up with record sleeves but no record player, Dublin, Ireland

 

 

 

In Memory of a Friend of the Phonograph

Betty Ann Barr - 2000

Bob Gross - 2003

Lawrence Brown - 2006

Carie 2009

 

Every man's memory is his private literature. - Aldous Huxley

It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time. - Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

The past is never dead, it is not even past. - William Faulkner

The death of an old person is like the burning of a library - Alex Haley

Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.- From the television show The Wonder Years

We do not remember days; we remember moments. - Cesare Pavese, The Burning Brand

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters; it is what lies within us that is important. -- Oliver Wendel Holmes

To speak the name of the dead is to make them live again - Ancient Egyptian Belief