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Gone, But Not Forgotten: Imagined Images

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Several years ago we traveled to the eastern shore of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to search for our great-grandparents farm, on a dirt road in the little town of Stalwart. We had a photograph from 1900 as a reference, but we were uncertain whether their home would still be there.

We did find the house in a clearing in the forest. As I took the photograph, ghostly apparitions appeared before me as I imagined that instant in the old photograph of the carriage and where it might have taken my grandparents that day.

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Family History and Genealogy, Michigan, Upper Peninsula

3 Comments

Comments on: "Gone, But Not Forgotten: Imagined Images" (3)

  1. PlumTreeDreamer said:
    12/11/2014 at 4:28 pm

    This is so powerful. It makes me want to go to the plantations of Mississippi, the coastlines of Honduras and the ports of Africa. That’s my background 🙂

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