tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19833734.post5333320525398022944..comments2024-02-22T19:21:40.330-05:00Comments on Muhlberger's World History: The changing of the guardUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19833734.post-56856767416725064432010-01-16T22:26:31.336-05:002010-01-16T22:26:31.336-05:00Tenth,
More than a decade ago I did get my paren...Tenth,<br /><br />More than a decade ago I did get my parents to record an extensive talk on their lives. They did a good job, and that oral history is still around in audio and transcript.<br /><br />I am grateful for your good words.Steve Muhlbergerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18136005762428407135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19833734.post-25418711634443486282010-01-16T19:11:49.087-05:002010-01-16T19:11:49.087-05:00You saw this post of mine at the time, I think, bu...You saw <a href="http://tenthmedieval.wordpress.com/2007/11/24/mission-statements-2-custodians-of-memory/" rel="nofollow">this post of mine</a> at the time, I think, but one of the things that lay behind it was talking with my mother, who has dug deep into my family's genealogy, talking about realising after some of her female relatives died that this information was going with them and she had missed her chance to ever find out any of this stuff. So she got going on the ones who were left. And of course what she found out has a better chance because someone wrote it out. Similarly, my father's draft autobiography may be a tissue of lies and half-truths, as my half-siblings insist, but it contains much of what he was willing to tell, and I've got it and it's safe for any future reader. The monks with the clichés about the fallibility of the memory still have the right of it. So I recommend you blog or otherwise collect these recollections more, as you may well already be doing.<br /><br />My consolations, also, for your losses of the last year. The division of the collection sounds heart-wrenching.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19833734.post-16922406559091887402010-01-16T13:00:11.384-05:002010-01-16T13:00:11.384-05:00My husband often says that in a generation or two,...My husband often says that in a generation or two, every person will be forgotten. <br /><br />Excepts are when they have a holiday or a location named after them.<br /><br />It also makes me sad that as our seniors get older their memories often go before they have been fully captured.S. McClintocknoreply@blogger.com