Karen’s post about the Augustus Griffin diaries gave me a pang not out of personal diary-keeping aspirations (I’ve tried and failed too many times to hold that as a serious ambition), but because of how interesting Griffin’s diaries sounded. I didn’t see the exhibit, but I remember how excited I was to learn that one […]
Family history
Family Notebooks
My New Year’s resolution for 2010 will be to work on a family research project involving my parents, and both sets of grandparents and great-grandparents. The experience will require me to be more of a detective than archivist, since the evidence is so incomplete, scattered, hidden or lost. The record will be part fact and […]
