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My mother highly prized education, something her three offspring are more grateful now than during our childhoods. Even Mom\u2019s gifts were designed to further our education and prepare us for the college careers she was determined we would all pursue. Every time I look at this game box, now displayed in my kitchen with other dust-catching memorabilia, I shake my head. Did she really think a kid would want a geography game for a birthday present?<\/p>\n

Happy Landing – Recycled<\/strong><\/p>\n

Recently one of my childhood games, passed on to younger cousins when I outgrew it, was returned to me. The thrill of owning Happy Landings: A Geography Game (Whitman Publishing, 1962) did not overwhelm me when I received the game as a birthday present when I was 9 or 10.<\/p>\n

For me, a geographically challenged child from the word go (my best guess is that the game was given after a particularly abysmal score on the social studies portion of ITBS) playing the game was an exercise in failure. The board was a world map marked with red stars. After drawing a card with commands like \u201cRide over Mackinac Bridge which connects upper and lower Michigan\u201d\u00a0 or \u201cClimb towering Mt. Everest in northern India,\u201d players placed their marker on the corresponding star.\u00a0 I don\u2019t remember ever getting a star in the right place. And since the map, the cards and the markers are in pristine condition, the game didn\u2019t see a whole lot of play at our house or anywhere else.<\/p>\n

But as a kid, one thing about the game intrigued me: I could spend hours gazing at the children on the cover. The boy was okay, mostly because he\u2019s holding the pointer which was cool, but the girl was fascinating. She was the epitome of early 1960s perfection. Note the curly hair, the lovely bow in her hair, the unwrinkled shirtwaist dress with it\u2019s own gigantic bow, the lace on collar, cuffs and waistband, and the wonderfully full skirt. And from the look on her face, you can bet she can answer every Happy Landings question without breaking a sweat. She was everything I aspired to be and couldn\u2019t accomplish, no matter how hard I tried. That\u2019s why I spent hours gazing at her picture, trying to imagine what it would be like to have a dress like hers, curls like hers, and smarts like hers.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m thrilled to possess the game again because it brings back so many memories: the chalky, booky, dusty smell of the elementary school I attended, girls wearing shorts under our dresses so the boys wouldn\u2019t see our panties on the jungle gym at recess, the joy of discovering Laura Ingalls, the Bobbsey Twins, and Clara Barton inside the covers of library books, and the disappointment of failing another spelling test because I got \u201cb\u201d and \u201cd\u201d mixed up again.<\/p>\n

But mostly, I\u2019m thrilled because the game reminds me of how far I\u2019ve moved beyond the child who once owned it and yet how much of her remains. I no longer obsess over lace, bows, ironed dresses, and curly hair. But, I still mix up \u201cb\u201d and \u201cd\u201d when I\u2019m tired, and I still love meeting characters inside a book.<\/p>\n

One last thing that hasn\u2019t changed? I still don\u2019t like playing geography games, so please, buy something else for my birthday this year!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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