My grandfather Sol (top right, in the snazzy pinstripes) left Lithuania in the 1920s, but couldn’t emigrate to the US because of the Jewish quota. So he went to the next best place: Cuba. He lived in Havana for five years, working in restaurants and learning Ladino. According to family lore he had a chance […]
My Great Grandfather Bill Clark was an avid gardener, as was his wife Myrtle who took this photo in July, 1969. My great grandparents’ garden was different every year. That’s the thing I remember most and recognize in the images of the garden that great grandad shot on Kodachrome (1960-1976). Always tidy, always weeded. Some […]
My great-grandmother Bergny Evelyn posing for the camera, circa 1907. I love her sassy attitude. She is holding her most prized possession: her doll Cora, a gift from an aunt who had emigrated to America. We still have the doll. I have always loved this photo; it looks like she’s ready to take on the […]
“When a person looks at a photograph you’ve taken, they will always think of themselves, their own life experience. They will relate your photograph to their memories. That interplay is where a picture comes alive and grows into something. They function like invitations.” –Jason Fulford My dad as a baby, with my grandmother. I am […]
“To collect photographs is to collect the world.” – Susan Sontag In this incredible photograph, my great-grandmother Madeleine and her sisters Therese and Martine sit in an early airplane with their friends in France. It was 1908 and airplanes were making their public debut. People partied and celebrated worldwide. On May 14, 1908, Wilbur and […]
My great-grandfather on Venice Beach, California circa 1930. He was alive for only a short time after I was born. I vaguely remember visiting his home, on an orange grove, when I was an infant. When I was born, our family had five generations living at once. It’s very, very rare. There was a photo […]
It’s been a year since her passing, and I still miss her every day. My grandmother, affectionately known as Munya (the woman getting her leg signed in this photo), was the most marvelous woman in the world. She had a presence that never went unnoticed and will never be forgotten. Though not the typical grandmother, […]
More Memorial Day stories shared through our old family photos remind us what sacrifice is all about. My grandfather Jesse Cox was the fifth out of eight children born to Scott Cox and Jessie Belle Moorer. At the age of 23, he enlisted in the U.S. Army. He attended the U.S. Army Post Fort Dix, […]
Baby at a typewriter. And it’s not a hipster setup! It’s my aunt around 1965-66. I’m sure my grandmother used this typewriter and they let my aunt play with it. My grandpa was — and still is — always snapping photos of the family, so I’m sure he took this. Grandpa always photographs things he […]
“Nostalgia is a powerful feeling; it can drown out anything.” – Terrence Malick My grandmother with my mom and my uncles in 1950. Most of the family photos from back then included the family car and / or the family dog! ~shared by @debgarr9903 View on Instagram →
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