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A gift awaiting unwrapping
Read MoreMost Christmas gifts have been unwrapped by now, but chances are there is box of gifts remaining behind in (hopefully) a bedroom closet, awaiting someone to unwrap them—again. I’m talking about a box of home movies. The motion picture record of your family’s past: Stories…
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The Story Quilter’s Threads
Read MoreI love a good barn. My paternal grandfather had a lovely one, perched on a hillside of the farming village of Eglon, W.Va. I recall him telling me that he and his wife, Maud, built the barn in the 1930s, when they married, moved to…
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Elmer Backlund
Read MoreI met him about 15 months ago, when I interviewed Elmer Backlund and two other A&B Dock employees for an Ashtabula Wave story. Elmer brought a surprise to that meeting at Norman Millberg’s house: The log he had kept while machine foreman on the dock,…
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‘Finnished’
Read MoreThe past three months I have been involved in a documentary film project about the immigration of Finnish workers and their families to Ashtabula Harbor. It’s been a grueling task, particularly the past two weeks as I’ve edited hours of interviews and B roll down…
