Category: Orphan Heirlooms
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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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Orphan heirloom Bible makes its way home.
I was beginning to take a liking to fostering this heirloom with its once gold-trimmed cover and beautiful full-page depictions of the Bible stories inside…
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A battle in the forest and then, we make contact!
I was deep in the middle of the forest dumping limbs and cuttings when my cell phone rang in my pocket. I moved quickly to remove my garden gloves – very carefully tugging as to not get poison ivy oil on my hands.
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A sad duct-taped Bible gets an upgrade.
I’m thinking that even after I get this baby back to its family, they’ll want to show it off too, so I searched online for something keepsake-ish…
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Orphaned Ancient Family Bible: No Response. What next?
I could ship it to them and risk it getting lost in the mail, or thrown around and damaged. I could drop it at their doorstep, but then I’d worry it would rain and drench the already ancient brittle pages.