Perhaps
you have seen or read the memories of Mabel Cargill, which were printed
and distributed among Cliffside natives over a decade ago. Paula Cargill,
her daughter, describes how they came about: “In 1982, I was at the
Institute of Gerontology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in studies
for a graduate specialist certificate in gerontology. As a project for one
of my courses, I had planned to create an oral history from the taped reminiscing
of Mother and Uncle Paul, the only survivors of their 'family of origin.'
He died suddenly while I was in Ann Arbor that summer. In time, Mother turned
on the tape recorder and, at one sitting, recalled just what is transcribed.”
Our thanks to Mabel Cargill's children, Paula, Anne and John, for their
help in making this important document widely available.
“I remember...”, memoirs with photos
The Acrobat version makes it more convenient to
print the original document (without pictures) for later reading or to have
as a keepsake. This requires the Adobe® Acrobat® Reader®. If you don't have the reader on your computer,
you can download
it here. It's free.
Unless otherwise noted, all photos in this section were provided by Anne and Paula Cargill.
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