Sample memories
What a memory can hold: a photograph, a story, a voice — anchored to the object itself. One of these is a real publication from a curator's collection; the rest are composites, invented to show the form.
A real, published memory
A dramatic contrast to crowded Niagara FallsA momento of Iguazu Falls flora and fauna
Read this memory →A composite sample · an heirloom ring
Anna’s wedding band, 1948 — worn again on my own wedding dayThe ring that crossed the Atlantic twice
Read this memory →A composite sample · a family quilt
Pieced by my grandmother, 1948–1953 · labeled at last, 2026Seventy years of us, in one quilt
Read this memory →A composite sample · in memoriam
Dad’s Elgin, carried for forty-one yearsThe watch he wound every morning
Read this memory →A composite sample · the story of a house
214 Willow Street · built 1911 · story compiled 2026This house was a hatter’s shop first
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