This is going to be an experience for you and for me….I have been going thru 4 boxes containing the history of my family, from as far back as the 1800’s.  I even have a statement showing where our family names and family tree came from in the year 1000. Dang…..

I have been reading wonderful letters written by family members during the 30’s, 40’s and 50’s (so far).  Yes, I am sure some day after my death, they will be thrown in a trash pile and the moments written about will be moments rarely thought of and fade away.

Some generations cling to their family history more than others….I am so glad the Mormon Church keeps log after log, and volume after volume of town, county, and state history. I especially love diaries.They are so cherished in some families and so quickly discarded in others…..I am in no way saying there is a right or wrong….just admitting that this is the way it is.

My generation  (I’m 74) is a ‘keeper’ generation and so were my parents and theirs before them.  And so…..I have my 4 boxes of memories….mostly written in letters on a very regular basis.  Hopefully I will read each one of them and learn about those who lived the years when I was not even born, or a small child….even more perhaps, than my parents wrote or remembered  as they aged and remembered, before passing.

I will begin posting some of these letters here and hope that you will enjoy them. If your family is far away, passed away, or just distant in their lifestyle, perhaps you will include yourself as the receiver of these letters and enjoy the life of these wonderful days many years ago…..That is not to say the times were opulent, or full of war ration books, and internment camps,  cold weather, and late planting…..but it is a wonderful picture into how we lived, in a different time.

My nieces and nephews, now in their 30’s have often said they envy us for living in the 50’s and 60’s…..and wish they had been part of  even their grandparents’ time……It will be fun to see if they will find these letters online and see what they have to say.

If no one reads them…..that will be okay with me….because I have read them and they filled me with great memories and the proof I had a wonderful family who always cared for one another…..by thought, word, and deed.

later……