Category: Family Stories
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90 Years ago today: A wedding of illicit proportions
Nine decades later, I celebrate the lies, illegitimate actions, and family secrets of the grandparents I never met.
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You did it WNC! The Swannanoa Wedding Album will soon be back with its family!! 🩷🩷
I was ready to search through 40,000 photographs for wedding shots. Juls Buckman was prepared to map out addresses in a 5-mile up-river area to match a house number from one of the photos. When Juls called me yesterday, I was cropping close-ups of the bride and groom from scans to post in another round…
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Shared more than 1.4K times on social media, WNC wants this muddy wedding album returned to its owners.
The neighborhood is unrecognizable from one residence to the next. A surviving street sign marks where a road used to be. We walked down a mud-covered path, making sure to step within the tracks of the large trucks, past a tent city where volunteers unloaded two sheds from a flatbed truck.
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Pulling Photos from a Flood
One heartbreaking loss during major floods and storms is that of photographs and memories. Of course family albums and pictures become an afterthought when our lives are interrupted by having no power, waiting in long lines for fuel, staring at the cell phone in hopes of getting a signal or better, an actual text. In…
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Preserving a Photographer’s Family Collection
Dad can take one look at a picture tube and in seconds say, “The color is off.” He’d fiddle with the knobs and fix it within minutes. I can’t see what he sees. I’d suck at that job. Maybe that’s why he had me sorting tubes in the back hallway.
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Memories Monday: What 10 years does to a soldier
The years between these two events changed my identity and entire world view. Can any of us imagine ten years into the future?