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memory
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The Family Archive: A Shoebox, a Hard Drive, and a Shelf
Eliot Bracken has been the unofficial archivist of his extended family for nineteen years. He is forty-four, an actuary, and lives in St. Paul. He keeps the family photographs on three external hard drives, the family letters in two Bankers Boxes, and the family stories on a Google Doc that is eighty-one pages long.
Generations
What Kids Inherit Besides Money and DNA
The Larkin family of Asheville keeps a wooden recipe box on top of the refrigerator. It contains 137 index cards, written in four hands across three generations. None of the recipes is famous. Most of them are for cake.