General Information about Item:

• Nursery Rhyme
• American
• English
• Children

 

Informant Data:

Olympia Caland was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1999. She immediately moved to the United States with her mother. She grew up in Los Angeles, California near the ocean and went to Crossroads School for the Arts from Kindergarten to 12th Grade. Her parents are divorced and her father lives in Paris, France with her half-brother Darius Caland. She speaks German, French, and English fluently and often travels back to Germany to see her grandparents. Olympia is in the class of 2021 at Dartmouth College.  She participates on the Varsity Volleyball team and enjoys studio art. She hopes to be a Studio Art major but also wants to minor in Economics.

Contextual Data:

Olympia last heard the nursery rhyme about “the sun going down” lots of years ago when she was young. Her father told her this rhyme before she went to sleep at night. The deeper meaning of this rhyme is that she links it to her father and the time they spent together before sleeping. She shared the rhyme with her brother when they were younger. She heard the rhyme nearly every night when she was younger.

Olympia connects this nursery rhyme to her childhood self. She reminises about the time spent with her father before bed as she and her dad are very close still to this day. This rhyme remains in her head as it was very memorable to her. She also has a sentimental attachment to this particular nursery rhyme since she shared it with her little brother.

 

Item:

The nursery rhyme, “The Sun is Going Down”

The sun is going down,

It’s the end of another day,

Soon the friendly dark will come,

It will be night,

It will be sleepy time.

 

 

Collector’s Comments: 

As Olympia recounts the nursery rhyme that highlights her early childhood years, she appears reminiscent. She didn’t seem hesitant when recalling the information which shows she vividly can recount the times her dad would tell her this rhyme before bed. She will always share this memory with her father which makes their bond stronger.

Collector Information:

Lauren Douglas

Hanover, NH 03755

Dartmouth College

Russian 0013

Winter 2018