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My comments here partially repeat what I wrote in the exhibit visitors' journal. I recently visited the Nancy Drew exhibit in Hornbake Library at the University of Maryland. It was also fun to look back over the titles (and it STILL gives me a little thrill) and remember each book and what fun it had been to read.ДЄlthough I no longer read Nancy Drew, I really attribute my lifelong love of reading, and mysteries in particular, to her. There was never any question about not liking the latest one because you 'knew' the heroine, and you could count on an exciting plot.

#NANCY DREW GAME 34 SERIES#

I learned to love books in a series because they were 'safe'. I think each book then cost $1, and I'm sure it was money well spent for my mother as it kept me quiet all the way home. When our shopping at 'Woodies' was finished, we would always descend to the first floor bookstore, and I was allowed to pick out a Nancy Drew mystery to read on the long ride back to the suburbs. In those days, there were no department stores in Silver Spring, where I grew up, and when the time came for shopping trips, there was a long streetcar ride to downtown Washington, DC for my mother, sister and me. My memories of reading Nancy Drew in the '50s are all mixed up with BRIBERY. They truly are a piece of American culture. As a history major, the old books are a way of looking back in time to get an idea of what the roles of men and women were and how people in general viewed minorities. I'm reading The Quest of The Missing Map now and can't wait to get my next two. Now I am ordering the facsimile editions of the originals from Applewood Books. I never knew that the originals had been revised and rewritten in the '50's and '60's. This was the first time I had read any of the originals. While we were dating, I would take a few from her library read them and return them a few weeks later. I was recently married and my wife has a few of the originals and most of the 'yellow covers'.

I gave all of my Nancy Drew books to my sister who read them all too. I read most of the 'yellow cover' books as a teenager. My mother's cousin said I could have the book and, from that time on, I was hooked. I was with my mother at her cousin's house (across the street from the Confederate cemetery) and I came across a copy of The Haunted Showboat. My first experience with Nancy Drew occurred when I was on summer vacation with my family in Corinth, Mississippi in 1976. That's one real benefit of the enduring Nancy Drew. The story will be something tangible that she and I can treasure even if memories fade. It'll probably never leave our private bookshelf, but that's okay. My daughter and I are writing our own mystery story which stars the famous trio and is set in Historical Harpers Ferry. Now I'm a homeschool mom with an entire collection of jacketed Nancy Drews. I picked it up, started leafing through the pages, and decided that I had to have it. One glance at it and I was back in those woods with my old friends-where life was simple and happy. We were always pretending to be Nancy, Bess, and George hot on a case, and of course we needed the spooky woods as our setting.ДЄ few years ago I wandered into a used bookstore and found Larkspur Lane with it's colorful dust jacket staring out at me from one of the shelves. I spent a few summers reading Nancy in our makeshift 'fortress' which we created in the woods near our home.

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