When I come across person items like diaries,photographs,poems tht someone had spent a lot of time working on in the Thrifts shop of Flea Markets I feel sorry for the families that had missed out on that insight on their relative.
These types of memoirs ‘should” be in a Museum.
I just returned from a Memorial Service for a 94 Year old lady whom had been quiet and by herself most of her late years.
At this memorial it was discovered tht she was in fact a writer of Poems,Diaries,Articles that made it in the Newspapers etc
However I was disappointed to find out that her remaining family members did not consider giving her files of notes etc to the Museum, nor try to publish her works?
They could not be bothered, for some reason ( she passed away about a month and a half ago)..so perhaps in time they may do something in memory of her “stories” etc.
People do not realize the connection of personal items that are left behind.
It is a conduit to that very person that passed away.
Too many times I have seen and heard of people who’s first response is to throw out their loved ones items , only to later regret it and search for those items as a means to connect to them later (years).
In my case my late mother gave away my late father’s items to the Second Hand store in her neighborhood to the chagrin of the rest of the family.
That was in 1976 and we are still trying to piece together my late father’s Boxing Career, with little to go on. I had puiblished a book on parts of his life , but wish that I could get more photos, News Reels, Articles on not only his career but also that of his brothers whom also were Professional Boxers in the early 1925’s.
The late Grandfather on my fathers side of the family inadvertatnly “hid” his box of beautiful photos of early life of these family members, but neglected to tell anyboy as to where he hid them! We believe that he had hidden all in a strongbox below his home in a makeshift cellar of which is now destroyed when ithe property was sold and a Business is rebuilt on top?