Tag: Family Collections
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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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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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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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Ugly divorces, deeds, leases. They’re all abstract until you find the Abstract.
This abstract includes records as far back as 1882 when the U.S. Patent Office conveyed 160 acres to Joseph H. Brooker from the United States of America. Brooker paid $200! Imagine if you could pay $1.25 for an acre today.
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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.
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Fixing TVs wasn’t enough for my grandfather. He had to run for President.
When Papa wanted something, he did what he could to get it, or build it, or he at least tried. I believed there was more to his run for the U.S. presidency than free publicity.