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Mary Collins is a professor of creative writing at Central Connecticut State University and the author of American Idle: A Journey Through Our Sedentary Culture, which won the Grand Prize for Nonfiction at the 2010 Indie Book Awards.
Outdoor Play for Baby Boomers: An Audio Archive
Welcome to the Free Play Project, which celebrates the history of unstructured, spontaneous play for children in the United States by gathering audio recordings of people’s memories of stickball, marbles, and other outdoor games. Read more >
Outdoor Play in the 20s and 30s: An Audio Archive
Read about the Free Play Project, which aims to collect recorded stories about outdoor games played by Americans of different generations. Read more >
