Recently, I went to the Brooklyn Flea Market in Ft. Greene. At the moment it is being housed in a gorgeous old bank building @ 1 Hanson Place.The biggest treat was the ability to wander all around the old bank admiring all the original fixtures including teller windows, private offices and the original vault in the basement.
As I wandered through the mounds of found treasures for sale, I was sadly surprised to find piles of people's gorgeous, old family photographs for sale by the bunch. So many memories attached to each one of those photos, yet no owner to claim them and recount their stories.
Is this the fate of our family histories? It's your responsibility to keep your family photos from winding up at a flea market. Preserve them and pass them down with the stories that make up your family history.
Seeing all those old photos makes my imagination run wild to create stories for them since no one is around to claim them. I wonder what they would say if they could talk. . .
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