Family, Roots, and Remembrance

This is an “about” page, alright.  As in “way too much about.”  Probably should have called it the Family Page.  Family is usually what I think of when I consider what I’m “about.”  Genealogy, landscape, historical timing…parents’ unfinished business passed along to me…stuff I had no control over, but which did, and still does, have considerable control over me.  I suspect whatever I’ve accomplished over the years is primarily the fruit of seeds planted long ago.

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So I’m offering these two interviews, lengthy and yet incomplete as they are, as documentation of my childhood and where it led me…brought me…dragged me.  My friend Revan Schendler was trained as an oral historian, but you can tell from the recording it didn’t take much to get me, and keep me, talking about my background.  The Berkshire Museum Interview took place ten years later, and focuses more on my professional development.  Maybe professional preoccupations would be a better way of putting it, but I touch on my childhood in that session, too.

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As for the recording of my mother and father, I’ve been longing to present this somehow, somewhere, for many years, so I figure if not here and now, then where or when?

And the photos, well…scroll at your leisure.​