Old photos are like glue that holds our family stories together over time. The team at AARP @aarpphoto invited @savefamilyphotos to take over their Instagram feed this week to share vintage Kodachrome portraits of my grandmother Sarah Lincoln LaCour. My grandmother is many things. Mostly, she is a force of nature. (And she doesn’t let […]
“Nostalgia made me feel that my life had roots and continuity.” -Constantine Sedikides My great, great aunt Clara (Pleasants) Jackson on June 13, 1920 in Hot Springs, Arkansas. She was the first in our family to leave Hot Springs and move to Chicago. One of her beautiful quilts is currently in a museum in Chicago. […]
My cousin just sent me this photograph of my grandma Nina. It is one I had never seen until now. This is beauty and grace. Unashamedly standing tall, not hiding, relaxed and at home. It sings to me. It makes me want to be fully present in photographs. I want my daughters, once they are […]
Memories make our lives richer and our roots deeper. This holiday, give the gift of memories. We’re teaming up with our friends @instantlyframed to help you give the gift of memories during the holidays. Here’s how you can win a free framed memory: 1. Follow @savefamilyphotos and @instantlyframed 2. Add the hashtag on a photo […]
This is my dad Chuck with my grandfather Elwyn. I believe this photo to be from roughly 1954 or so, as my dad is about 2 years old here. What’s so special about it to me is that it’s one of the few photos we have in our collection of my dad and my grandfather […]
My grandmother, Helen May Rickard, grew up in Boston, MA and Detroit, MI during the Great Depression. Estranged from her father, she lived with her mother, the two of them working menial jobs and attempting to escape from the monotony and disappointments of everyday life by going to the movies and reading novels. A gifted […]
My favorite picture ever. (I’m the youngest, in the middle.) I don’t know exactly where this was taken, but I do know it was during one of the many summers our family spent traveling around the western United States in our station wagon and Aloha trailer. Since my dad was a school teacher, he was […]
These guys are my heroes. My grandparents were married in 1941. They had known each other since grade school but apparently my grandma was involved with someone else when my grandpa first fell for her. The story goes that when she was ready to receive my grandfather’s attention, she wrote a note to a friend […]
These are my two little brothers, Mike and Chris, in about 1976. They were very close in age, only fourteen months apart. Everyone thought they were twins because my mom dressed them the same so they wouldn’t fight! They were the best of friends and had a grand time on their tricycles (as you can […]
Nostalgia never gets old. In fact, the emotional allure of nostalgia is one of the reasons the hashtag #throwbackthursday (#TBT) is so successful. Since 2011, nearly 300 million photos have been shared on Instagram using the #TBT hashtag. Articles have been written to analyze why we embrace this trend wholeheartedly. In her insightful piece in […]
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