Yesterday I met with Bob, the owner of this dairy crate filled with family history.

For his 80th birthday, Bob’s children gave him the gift of working with me to make a book. Now, I have made gifts before, but never before have I been the gift. It is a total honor. Besides which, I can already tell I’m going to like working with Bob.

We will take our time with this project. For health reasons, Bob cannot devote as much time as he might otherwise to gathering his resources. But we came up with an outline for his book and a production schedule for him to organize photos for one family member per week. A very doable task.

His book will be a scrapbook-type format telling his family history. Meaning, it will be a collection of photos with stories/captions/descriptions along the way when a particular photograph triggers a memory or story. Not necessarily a thoroughly written family history, just whatever he’s got stored in his memory bank and dairy crate.

Here are more shots of said crate and its contents.

I’ll keep you posted on our progress!

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