When Mom dressed us, fed us, took care of everything…remember?! In this old family photo, I’m grateful for Mom dressing me in the height of 70’s fashion & not Garanimals. 🙂 My single mother worked two, sometimes three, jobs but I never, ever knew we were money-poor, as we were so rich in love. Looking […]
Stories are the lifeblood of family history. They keep us connected to those who represent our past, and they bond us to those who fill our present-day lives. But what happens when family stories are missing key chapters? What if some family stories are tragically broken? For one documentary photographer, family photos are keys to reconciling her fractured past with […]
Meet two of my favorite people – Helen and Ray Malesky, photographed around 1949. Helen was a nurse in the Schuylkill County region. Ray and his friends lived in Centralia, PA. A friend of Ray’s ended up being a patient of Helen’s for a few days and Ray seemed to always stop by to visit his […]
Finding more family treasures every day. Here’s my dad in a tree on Euclid Heights Blvd. Cleveland Heights, OH. August 1931. Five months later, he’d lose his father to cancer. My dad is now 90 years old and would love that a photo from his childhood is being shared and enjoyed by people around the […]
This photograph is of my grandmother, Margaret (Kelly) Birkenbach, second from the right. She was born in southern Ohio in 1904. Judging from her age, this photograph was most likely taken in 1915 or 1916, when she would have been 11 or 12 years old and her sister, Katie Ruth Kelly, on the far left, […]
Mom graduated from Lincoln High School in Sioux Falls, SD in 1975. At the time she thought she’d major in interior design. She ended up in child development and worked for a long time as the Director of Child Life at Children’s Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska. That’s where my sister and I were born. Mom […]
This photo was taken around 1937 in Beirut. My mum, Celia, is torturing her big brother, Peter, with my grandmother, Elsie, looking on and sister, Alison, on the left. I love the way this captures a spontaneous, silly kids moment. My mother’s British/American family lived in Lebanon for three generations. My Quaker missionary great-grandparents, their […]
This photograph of my grandparents makes my heart flutter. They were not supposed to fall in love; my grandmama was disowned from her family for abandoning her pre-arranged groom-to be. She lost everything to come to a country where everyone hated her and the way she looked. But instead of being bitter, she taught my […]
We all know the feeling. There was something we wish we’d said to someone special. Now they’re gone and we can’t go back in time to tell them what we wanted them to know…what they needed to know. Or, can we? One photographer gives you a chance to say what you always wish you’d said to your […]
Sometimes the best trip is the one down memory lane. My grandmother Gladys (center, in red trousers) plays shuffleboard on board a ship to Canada to visit cousins. The photo shows her having fun and playing games, which she always enjoyed. She was a great card player too. The photo is from the treasure trove […]
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