What is the theme in Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories by Jean Shepherd?

Another theme is memory. Usually the reason an event stays in one's memory for such a very long time is because it was either a painful event or because something went very, very wrong at the time. The narrator's stories focus on remembrances of his past, starting with the arrival of the Bumpus clan next door. Their once quiet lives are disrupted by nonstop country music, the sound of human and animals, and the smells that accompany both. That Easter, as is the tradition in the Shepherd family, they go to the grocery store on the Friday before Easter as a family to choose a ham. The lengthy cooking process tantalizes not only the Old Man and the narrator, but obviously advertises to the entire neighborhood what the Shepherd family will be having for Easter Dinner.