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Life Stories: My First Photography Gig

It is hard for me to tell the entirety of my story in any particular sequence or simple way. I suppose sometimes things kind of speak for themselves, and I can give a summary overview of what I recall of this event and these albums. Summary: According to the date on one of the photos in the albums my mother put together at the end of April 1979 (within two weeks of my father’s death on May 10, 1979) for...

Guest Writing: Losing the Land, by Dennis Slifer

Preface by Eileen: A few weeks ago I contacted my first cousin, Dennis, oldest son of my Uncle Bill, because a line he had written for a family project assembled in 1998 was coming into my mind. Of all that he wrote, that line has sometimes come back easily into my memory. The sentences (woven into a more recent, more extensive piece Dennis did for a wonderful collection of family history, genealogy and old photos) appear later in his writing...