"Do you not know that a man is not dead
while his name is still spoken?"
—Terry Pratchett
"They say you die twice. One time when you stop
breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when
somebody says your name for the last time."
—Banksy
Why record their stories?
"Every time a man dies, a library burns."
—Ancient Proverb
Why a family heritage?
In the 1950's, Grandma Hey explains
why she decided to write.
Why I'm Studying Writing, Ruth Hey
Elbert Marshall Dean, Jr. & Janna Ruth Hey Dean
Parents of Stephen Jay Dean
"Old Friends"
Memory brushes the same years
Silently sharing the same fear
A time it was, and what a time it was, it was
A time of innocence
A time of confidences
Long ago it must be
I have a photograph
Preserve your memories
They're all that's left you
—Paul Simon
Believes longer than recollects,
longer than knowing even wonders.
—Faulkner, Light in August
Stephen Jay Dean & Kathleen Marie Vegter Dean
Home is the place where,
when you have to go there,
They have to take you in.
I should have called it
Something you somehow haven't to deserve.
—Frost, "Death of the Hired Man"
"Home Again"
—Elton John
I'm counting on a memory to get me out of here..
Just one more time,
for old time's sake I'd like to go back home again..
Never tiring once of hearing songs about going home again.
If I could go back home, if I could go back home
If I'd never left, I'd never have known
We all dream of leaving, but wind up in the end
Spending all our time trying to get back home again.
Henry Vegter & Violet Tschetter Vegter
Parents of Kathleen Marie Vegter
"When We Were Young"
Let me photograph you in this light
In case it is the last time
That we might be exactly like we were
Before we realized
We were sad of getting old
—Adele