LOSE YOUR MARBLES GIRL PATCH

вЂњShe is doing a great job representingВ theВ UMSL undergraduate community.Click on the sports names below for more detailed information about each unusual sport. вЂњHer research on marbles and childвЂ™s play is significant as it addresses a group of individuals whose behaviorsВ are often neglected in historic and archaeological discussions,вЂќ Wright said. Wright said Longsworth is enthusiastic and highly motivated and has been able to combine her passion for children with her passion for historical archaeology. Longsworth said she could have researched doll parts or tea sets, but was really struck by the toy marbles, and the fact that they were вЂњgenderlessвЂќ and вЂњeconomic- lessвЂќ and completely neutral. вЂњWell, youвЂ™ve got a child, why donвЂ™t you look at toys,вЂќ she recalled Wright suggesting. Longsworth credits Patti Wright, associate professor of anthropology at UMSL, for turning her onto childrenвЂ™s archeology. вЂњMy goal is to say that the rich kids did not have all of the best marbles, nor did they have the most marbles, and that even supposedly destitute, poor вЂ¦ insert dramatic sigh вЂ¦ kids will play,вЂќ Longsworth said. What does she hope will come of her research? вЂњThat tells me that either the kids were very good players or like families these days who will go out and purchase Xboxes and iPads and things like that for their children, because in the backs of their minds itвЂ™s, вЂIвЂ™m giving something better to my child than I had,вЂќвЂ™ Longsworth said. She found that the Irish immigrants had the most expensive marbles and the widest variety. Longsworth said the girlвЂ™s inexpensive marbles either means that she was not a very good player or вЂњgrandpa was incredibly frugal.вЂќ Such inexpensive marbles are not what one would expect from such a wealthy family. It appears his granddaughter only had six plain porcelain marbles.

LOSE YOUR MARBLES GIRL PATCH

The richest person in the Kerry Patch community was a German immigrant grandfather, whom in the census data from that period, was listed as a retired businessman.

Longsworth said even the wealthiest family didnвЂ™t always have the best marbles. She said the term вЂњlose your marblesвЂќвЂ“ was tragic for a kid. If you played for keeps вЂ¦ if you won, you got every single marble the other person had,вЂќ Longsworth said. вЂњYou were literally playing for the other guysвЂ™ marbles. She said playing marbles was a high-stake game. In the 1880s, the time period that Longsworth looked at, marble production was mainly coming out of Germany. вЂњKids could make clay marbles,вЂќ Longsworth said. The most expensive marble was an agate, which was made of ground stone and had a beautiful rich honey brown color.

Of course, some marbles were nicer than others. Rich and poor play with marbles,вЂќ Longsworth said.

People from across the social spectrum played with them. Longsworth said marbles were a great equalizer in a community. The present-day location puts it a few blocks north of the Edward Jones Dome. SheвЂ™s writing her senior thesis on the subject of toy marbles recovered from late-19th-century backyards and outhouses in the Irish and German community of north St. In January, Longsworth had the honor of presenting her paper on childrenвЂ™s archeology at the 2012 Conference for the Society for Historical Archeology in Baltimore. Mary Lynn Longsworth, a senior anthropology major at UMSL, poses with marbles that are representative of ones recovered from the Kerry Patch siteД¬hildвЂ™s play is serious business for Mary Lynn Longsworth, a senior anthropology major at the University of MissouriвЂ“St.

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