Tell your Story!

Remember the saying, “A picture is worth a thousand words.”  Well it is for some, like the one who took the picture.  But, for those looking at the picture many years later, no knowledge of the photo will bring any words to mind.  If you don’t tell your story, who will?

Looking through all the pictures of my mother, father, and grandparents has left me with a million questions.  No names, no places, no why the picture was taken appears anywhere on the photograph.  For me, these people are gone and most of the mysteries remain.  When I am lucky enough to run into a story and find the picture at the same time, I am overjoyed.  I immediately record the story and save it with the picture usually in a digital format.

Many years ago, my grandfather wrote me several letters telling me wonderful stories about his childhood.  I put them all together into a book, then began looking through all the old pictures for the stories.  The most precious story was of a picture my grandfather no longer had of him, his brother, and their dog Frisk.  The story is so funny.

Frisk was following the birdie

After a search on the internet just placing his surname in Google, I found someone in my Grandfather’s home state who had an entire photo album belonging to my Grandfather’s family.  I bought all the pictures from him.  One of the pictures was the very picture my grandfather told me about.  I was very surprised.  And, now it is included in the book with the story in my grandfather’s own words.  However, my grandfather never saw that picture again.