Early Technology
Sawyer, Hillary

>>HILLARY: Ok my name is Hillary Sawyer and I'm going to talk a little bit about early technology in my literacy story. When I was a young girl I had an extensive collection of little golden books and they were my pride and joy. I kept them very safe; I had a box beside my bed, it was an old, rough looking box. It was probably from an antique show that had carried something back to my home from my parents that they didn't want anymore and I thought it would be perfect for my books; I was probably four or five years old. Inside the box I would hold all of the books in my collection and I would take them out and I would put them in a new order every day; that was one of my favorite things to do when I wasn't reading my books. I would put them in order by color, I would put all of the books that had a black cover and a blue cover together and a red cover together and I would put them together by characters. All of the stories with Donald Duck were together, all of the stories with Little Red Riding Hood; that was something that I really enjoyed. Then one day when my mom came home with a new kind of book and it was not a little golden book with a golden binding, it was a soft-back book and it had an audio tape with it and I remember it was "The Fox and the Hound", it was Disney story and I had never seen anything like that. She got out a tape player and we put the tape into the tape player and all of sudden the characters came alive. I could hear their voices and the background noises of the story as it was going on and something that my mom still tells the story today is that when I was listening to the fox and the hound, in particular, it would make me so sad and I would read it from beginning to end following along with the book and listen to the story and she would find me sobbing and crying and in a puddle of tears and then as soon as it was over I would stop and hit rewind and do it all over again. That just always stayed with me and I watched "The Fox and the Hound" again as an adult and I still cried. So that's my early technology story of my literacy experience.