“All personal photographs are trying to get lost. Whether they are tucked away in a photo album or existing as ones and zeroes in a computer hard drive, it takes work from their caretakers to protect personal images.” – @toddwemmr I had the pleasure of assembling my great grandmother’s Life Story four years ago after […]
So far this year, my family has celebrated a 16th, 21st, 25th and 50th birthday and a 25th, 30th and 60th wedding anniversary. Now we celebrate the first of two 80th birthdays happening this summer. It’s a very special one: my Mom’s! As part of this milestone celebration, we digitized Mom and Dad’s 8mm movies […]
I received a call at work that was vague and worrying. It was from my mother, telling me to leave work right away. When I arrived at the house, she was in tears, sitting in the corner of her bedroom on the floor. I had lost my grandfather, G.W. Marts. I was in shock, and […]
My parents Carlo Gabriele and Elena Conte as boyfriend and girlfriend in 1948 or 1949. This picture is important to me because maybe it’s the only photo of my parents as boyfriend and girlfriend that I have. I have photos of my mother as a young girl, my father as a young boy, but just this one […]
“Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by so quick you can hardly catch it going.” – Tennessee Williams 1973. Summertime memories on the Little Big Horn river in eastern Montana. This was the first fish I ever caught and it shows on my face! ~shared by @missheidilouise View on […]
Last week my maternal grandmother passed away. She was born in 1930 and lived 84 amazing, gritty, loving, open, honest, and creative years. Here she is on her wedding day with her first husband, Eugene H. Klein, in May 1950 in Cook County, Illinois. I am grateful to have known my grandmother for 36 years, […]
Meet my great grandmother Edith, pictured here in San Diego. I think she is pregnant with my grandmother and her twin, and if so, this photo was taken around 1913. Luckily, Edith had an older child from a first marriage and photos of her were passed down to his descendants, which is how I got […]
“I barely remember that girl,” she said. The hands that hold this picture are worn. They are full. They are beautiful. These hands have raised babies, served homemade meals, turned the pages of her favorite books, been held out in prayer, thrown up in surrender and hugged us so tightly, we knew her love was […]
I love my nana and grandad’s wedding portrait. My grandparents, Dave Frank and Florrie Pennock, grew up in Middlesbrough, United Kingdom and met when they were just eight years old. Granddad served in World War II and was named after his uncle, who was killed in World War I. Granddad often said that we could […]
The power of photography to trigger memories and help us heal is truly remarkable. Dad behind the wheel of that cream station wagon he loved so much! Family vacation, circa 1978. Boston to Florida. Dad thought driving on the beach was something we had to do. He said, “Lu, you can’t do this on The […]
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