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29
Oct

What We Discover When we Uncover Old Family Snapshots

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I’ll never forget this day in late 60s. That’s the first fish I ever caught and removed from the hook, under the watchful eyes of my Uncle Chuck and my Dad. Naturally, my Dad is smoking a cigarette, although he quit shortly after this due to the arrival of my youngest sister. We were on […]

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28
Oct

Vintage Snapshot Tells a Story of a Lifetime of Service

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This is one of my favorite photos of my dad, Bill (lower left), his twin sister Kathy, his mother Betty, who sadly passed away in 1982, and his father William, who sadly passed away just a few weeks ago at the age of 91. They lived in Hawaii for a number of years in the […]

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27
Oct

My Pioneering Grandparents Explored and Documented the Pacific Northwest in the 1930s

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Meet my grandmother, Mary Pearson, who was often photographed by my grandfather and newlywed husband, Eric Holger Pearson. Here, Mary is pictured in 1932 at the base of Nisqually-Paradise Road, Mt. Rainier, Washington State’s highest volcano. I am lucky to have hundreds of photos from my grandfather’s collection, many of which capture my grandparents adventures […]

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26
Oct

Family History, Pictured in One Vintage Snapshot of my Grandparents

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These two beautiful young people are my beloved grandparents, Danusia and Tadeusz Bulkiewicz. They both had painful experiences as children, suffering things that no child should ever suffer. My grandmom spend the years of World War II in an orphanage and never wanted to talk about this trauma. My granddad was old enough to be […]

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25
Oct

Meet Dwight the Poet, My Beloved Grandfather

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My grandfather, Dwight Percy Farnworth, was a man of many trades and talents. One thing I remember fondly about him was his poetry. He memorized poems – so many poems. As his granddaughter, I recall him reciting poems to me to correct me, teach me, and even to answer my questions. It seems he knew […]

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24
Oct

A Vintage Snapshot of a Real Life Cowgirl

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This is a photo of my mom and her big sister Jan in Massapequa, New York. My Aunt Jan was a remarkable woman who recently passed away at the age of 75 after fighting a long, hard, six-year battle with cancer. She was a private, self-reliant woman who found it difficult to let people help […]

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22
Oct

Picturing Childhood before Helicopter Parenting

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Me (the sassy brunette in the pink dress), my brother and sister, and a few girls from the neighborhood. Growing up in the 70’s, the neighborhood kids were everything. Moms never had to arrange play dates or hover over us. They let us be free, have fun, explore and when differences came up, they let […]

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17
Oct

My Grandmother The Documentarian of our Family

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My Mom’s birthday was yesterday. What better way to celebrate than to reminisce? She recently sent me this photo of herself as a young girl, on her 7th birthday. This picture was taken October 16, 1959. My Grandparents, Paul and Alberta, worked very hard to make a living, starting out in Chicago and then purchasing […]

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16
Oct

A Photo Booth Captures a Classic Love Story

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Last Thursday, I took my 90 year old father to the emergency room after he showed great weakness and confusion. While my 4 brothers and I waited for the doctor, my Mom (87) stepped outside the exam room into the hallway where she tripped and broke her hip, requiring hospitalization and surgery the following day. […]

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13
Oct

Discoveries from Family Photo Albums

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“The day she had her curls cut off,” it says on the back. My grandfather found my grandmother’s stash of things, her things that he hasn’t touched since she died in 1992. Apparently, there was a very special book, an album that belonged to my great-great grandmother Blanche! And here she is, Blanche Dolton nee […]

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