Category: Protect and Preserve Memories
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Recovered image lets me see my grandfather’s face for the first time.
[1 minute read] For the first time in my life, I can see my grandfather, Darryl Ervin Cravey. He died 28 years ago today. Whoever you were, RIP.
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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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Project: Abandonment Collection
When your writing is haunted by abandonment, you don’t share it. You don’t toss it. You bury it in a secret box with the rest of your horrible memories.