Comments on: Time to tell http://blog.blithewold.org/the-archives/time-to-tell/ a garden journal about public garden maintenance, seasonal tasks, garden events, stories about gardening, volunteers, flowers, bugs and wildlife Sun, 19 May 2013 12:25:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Andrew http://blog.blithewold.org/the-archives/time-to-tell/comment-page-1/#comment-10661 Andrew Wed, 02 Mar 2011 15:54:15 +0000 http://blog.blithewold.org/?p=4721#comment-10661 Thanks so much for the promotion Kris! <em>My pleasure, Andrew! -kris</em> Thanks so much for the promotion Kris!

My pleasure, Andrew! -kris

]]> By: Susan Sims http://blog.blithewold.org/the-archives/time-to-tell/comment-page-1/#comment-10578 Susan Sims Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:21:19 +0000 http://blog.blithewold.org/?p=4721#comment-10578 Oh yes. Many many journals, letters, personal histories, photographs, and ephemera. Mormons are famous for it. Attempts were made to organize everything into scrapbooks but they got pulled apart a bit over the years so it all needs to be reorganize. I feel for those on the Blithewold project. It is no easy task. But your archives sound much more interesting than mine. None of my progenitors had the coin to take trips to Egypt. <em>Mine neither, Susan! And my family didn't save much anyhow - I'll have to live vicariously through the Van Wickle's... -kris</em> Oh yes. Many many journals, letters, personal histories, photographs, and ephemera. Mormons are famous for it. Attempts were made to organize everything into scrapbooks but they got pulled apart a bit over the years so it all needs to be reorganize. I feel for those on the Blithewold project. It is no easy task. But your archives sound much more interesting than mine. None of my progenitors had the coin to take trips to Egypt.

Mine neither, Susan! And my family didn’t save much anyhow – I’ll have to live vicariously through the Van Wickle’s… -kris

]]> By: Lynn http://blog.blithewold.org/the-archives/time-to-tell/comment-page-1/#comment-10577 Lynn Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:01:44 +0000 http://blog.blithewold.org/?p=4721#comment-10577 Wonderful! "when letters were handwritten and journals were private…" what a notion. I have old family albums, but no journals that I know of. My mom's side were German immigrants and Tennessee farming folk, and I'd love to know if they kept some kind of record. <em>Lynn, Maybe someone kept their old seed orders - wouldn't that be fascinating... -kris</em> Wonderful! “when letters were handwritten and journals were private…” what a notion. I have old family albums, but no journals that I know of. My mom’s side were German immigrants and Tennessee farming folk, and I’d love to know if they kept some kind of record.

Lynn, Maybe someone kept their old seed orders – wouldn’t that be fascinating… -kris

]]> By: commonweeder http://blog.blithewold.org/the-archives/time-to-tell/comment-page-1/#comment-10576 commonweeder Wed, 23 Feb 2011 12:59:42 +0000 http://blog.blithewold.org/?p=4721#comment-10576 What a wonderful project. I have no family journals, but after her death I did come into possession of a year's diary a friend kept and found out what a difficult life she had been enduring. Sometimes very painful stories are revealed in a diary. <em>Pat, What a privilege to get that kind of look into the story of your friend's life. I think those of us who keep a journal often use them to work out the rough stuff. -kris</em> What a wonderful project. I have no family journals, but after her death I did come into possession of a year’s diary a friend kept and found out what a difficult life she had been enduring. Sometimes very painful stories are revealed in a diary.

Pat, What a privilege to get that kind of look into the story of your friend’s life. I think those of us who keep a journal often use them to work out the rough stuff. -kris

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