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Magdeline Crim Autobiography

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Title	Magdeline Crim Autobiography
Subject	Daily Life Children
Place	Mechanicsburg (Ohio) Champaign County (Ohio)
Description	One Golden Dream tells the story of Magdeline Crim of Champaign County, Ohio and the challenges she faced being blind in one eye from birth and disabled from polio as a child. It also tells of everyday life in rural Champaign County and the village of Mechanicsburg: friends, family, and events both big and small. It is 81 pages long and measures 8.5" x 11" (21.59 x 27.94 cm). Twenty-four pages, including a selection of Crim's poems at the end of the narrative, are included here. Crim (1876-1963) was born in rural Champaign County near the Union County line. Although she was born blind in one eye, neither she nor her family regarded it as a handicap. At the age of 13 she contracted polio, which, in the early 1890s was treated with full body casts, moist heat treatments, and physical therepy. Crim's family supported her, with her mother giving her the heat therapy and her brother, Sam, making pulleys for the movement of her legs. When she got her wheelchair, she began to visit those who sought her calming spirit when they were ill or dying. She also took care of many children, and was known throughout her community as a selfless caregiver who could be depended upon to nurse and tend as needed, or simply sit by the sick or dying. As a result of her continued self-discipline and support by her family, Maggie Crim was able to get around on crutches by the time she was in her early twenties. At age 23 she returned to school as a student and teacher. She went on to take classes in music at Wittenburg University, a round trip of nearly fifty miles, for classes in storytelling, games, business, folk dancing, music history, and drama. She wrote poetry, much of which she included in her autobiography. In July, 1921, Trinity Methodist Church wanted to raise funds for their Sunday School and they asked Crim to help with the entertainment. Using Joseph Ware's book "Mechanicsburg, Yesterday and Today: History of Mechanicsburg" she set about creating a theatrical pageant. The whole community came together to work under her direction, and with more than 300 community "actors" it was a marvelous success. According to Crim's account, the only thing major problem was that a movie company who planned to film the pageant thought that it would run for two evenings. By the time they arrived with their cameras, they had missed the whole thing. The gate receipts, at the rate of 35 cents per adult and 15 cents per child, totaled over a thousand dollars.
Creator	Crim, Magdeline, 1876-1963
Date of Original	1953
Source	Unpublished material (archives/manuscripts)
Submitting Institution	Mechanicsburg Public Library
Type	Text
Format	manuscripts

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