Word Jazz Artist Ken Nordine Shares a Childhood Memory

Thu, 07/09/2009 - 9:24am — editor

With ambivalent memory I recall a game we played when I was about 9 or 10 in the LeMoyne playground. A game we called 'running through'...about 100 kids would fill the long field and a few of us would try to run through without being tackled. It was great fun except for one thing, my glasses were broken once a week by the tacklers bringing me down on the rough ground, causing me big trouble with my patient mother when I got home with my broken glasses in hand.

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Mon, 08/15/2011 - 9:47am — chris z

I experienced the same

I experienced the same "game" between 1953 to 1961 and we had "elevated" the game to just touch.  However, we did get bruised with all the hands and arms in motion.  Remember the H U G E  "Jungle Jim" structure near the field house??

Sun, 09/11/2011 - 7:42pm — 3172rtb

never graduated from lane

never graduated from lane but it was agreat school was in the art conc it was hard only remember a certain science teacher a big negrto man and mr lewis the gym teacher