Everyday Family Life

Celebrating and Having Fun

Good Times and Bad Times

Working

School

Community

Migration

Family Folklife introduction

Toward a Better Balance description

• Describe the town where you lived (or the one nearest to you). If you lived in more than one town, which one do you think of as "home?" Why?
  

• What was the most important form of transportation in town?
  

• When, if ever, did the family need to make a trip to a larger town? How did you travel there? What memories do you have of those times?
  

• Who did the family shopping or marketing? Where and how often did they go?
  

• What clubs or organizations did family members belong to? How important were these clubs to the family?
  

• What community events or celebrations do you remember?

From Toward a Better Balance: Curriculum Guide for Multicultural Education, Susan K. Donley (Pittsburgh: Pennsylvania Ethnic Heritage Studies Center, 1988) ©1988 Pennsylvania House of Representatives. Used by permission.