Shared examples of some indirect/learned memories

 Wemoirist: Peter

I remember a good deal of what I learned about history from reading Landmark books when I was 8-12 years old.

I remember what I internalized about social justice and “the brotherhood of man” as an elementary school student at New Lincoln, a progressive private school in Manhattan.

I remember the basic plots of hundreds of classic novels from reading Classics Illustrated comics.

I remember many of the events I saw on the newsreels that were part of an afternoon at the movies in early 1950’s New York City.

I remember the 1954 World Series, which I watched on our first TV (black and white) while I was at home, quarantined with the mumps; my home team the N.Y. Giants swept the pitching-dominant Cleveland Indians in 4 games and Willie Mays made "the Catch." 

I remember the names and behaviors of many animal species that I saw at the Bronx Zoo and the Central Park Zoo, as well as from butterfly collecting and bird-watching on summer vacations in Connecticut in the 1950s.

I remember much of the science I learned watching the Bell System Science Series on TV---Our Mr. Sun (1956), Hemo the Magnificent (1957), and The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays (1957).

I remember a good bit of what I learned about 19th and 20th century world geography and history, (especially colonialism) by collecting stamps in the 1950s.

I remember numerous events that I read about in the New York Times every morning at breakfast when I was a teen-aged high school student (1957-1961) in Westport, Connecticut.

I remember much of what I learned in the early 1960s as an undergraduate at Wesleyan University about philosophy, literature, art, theater, and music of the west, the only exception to this steady diet of Western Civilization being a single course I took on non-Western religions.

And like most Americans who were alive in 1963, I remember exactly where I was when I heard that President John F. Kennedy had been fatally shot.

Other we-moirists indirect/learned memories will be added here as they are received.