Recording Family Memories
June 13, 2009 by Mary Emma Allen
Filed under Home & Living
“I still remember sitting with her in her apartment…quilting while she told me her entire life history. I wish I had the sense to have had a tape recorder, but alas, I did not,”Susan Lazear says, as she relates her experience in a blog entry about restoring her grandmother’s quilt.
How many of us wish the same…that we’d recorded stories and memories of parents, grandparents and other relatives who are no longer here to tell us about our heritage? Or we wish we’d at least jotted down some notes as they told stories.
These family stories are precious. When we hear parents and …read more




