Book / Author Quoted, Holiday, Media, Video Personal History 11 Jul 2015 Make Your Own Family History DVD: Part 1 Attorney Barbara Moss Makes Family DVDs for Gifts, and so can you! Barbara Moss told me of her family history video activities when we were at a party for the Nashville Senior Directory. She videotapes and edits interviews with the… Deborah Wilbrink No Comments
Memoir 23 May 2015 Dancing in the Cemetery: Memorials 4 A dance troupe is canceling performances, in Alkmaar, Nederlands, my husband's home town. There have been some reactions, and a lawsuit, to stop them from dancing - in public cemeteries. They dance between the graves, wearing white. The dance is choreographed by a woman who recently lost her brother. This picture just doesn't do it justice, but it's the only… Deborah Wilbrink No Comments
Local History, Memoir, Music, Show & Tell, Time to Tell 09 Apr 2015 Kidnapped! Startling Stories from Show & Tells: Time to Tell 6 Mabel’s true story about a baby-kidnapping ring is poignant and universal. She inspired the song Time to Tell. Deborah Wilbrink No Comments
Memoir 22 Mar 2015 Quilters Make Memories & Inspire Songs: Time to Tell 5 Baby quilts bring delight to families finally taking home their infants after extended birth stays – premature, in incubators, gaining weight. The softness, colors, and most of all, caring give are proof that “the Village” exemplified by the Rose Center Quilt Guild, is extending its arms to these children and parents. I visited these quilters in Morristown, Tennessee to meet… Deborah Wilbrink No Comments
Book / Author Quoted, Event, Music, Time to Tell 15 Mar 2015 Opportunity is Ticking, It’s Time to Tell 4! Now is the Time to Tell Your Family & Personal History! It just got easier... for you to "tell", and easier to persuade someone you love that it's time to tell! This project started with a song inspired by Mabel's Story about her early life, kidnapped from a cotton field. She wanted to get that recorded! Soon I found myself… Deborah Wilbrink No Comments
Memoir 06 Mar 2015 Living Plants: Memory & Memorials 4 Poppies bring memories of the WWI poem by John McCrae, In Flanders Field. Or Perhaps they remind us of a deep sleep in The Wizard of Oz, or of heroin. This shot was taken on a roadside in Turkey, where the poppies blow wild. Down the road was a remarkable personal memorial - a grave itself serving as flower garden.… Deborah Wilbrink 2 Comments
Book / Author Quoted, Philosophical, Time to Tell 16 Feb 2015 Time to Tell 3: Scarier than Public Speaking: Crowdfunding Crowd funding, like public speaking, can be frightening. Will it be worth it? Time to Tell will be crowdfunding for completion soon on Kickstarter. Deborah Wilbrink No Comments
Event, Time to Tell, Writing Coach 30 Jan 2015 Writing Together: Time to Tell2 Some ways to write together, for motivation, companionship, and improvement. From personal historian Deborah Wilbrink. Deborah Wilbrink 2 Comments
Book / Author Quoted, Event, Memorial 20 Jan 2015 Statue Mania: Memory & Memorials 3 Statue mania, the wave of commemorative statuary, and the poetry of Bridgette Bates, author of What Is Not Missing Is Light. Part 3 of a series, Memory and Memorials. Deborah Wilbrink No Comments
Event, Local History, Memoir, Memorial 13 Jan 2015 Memory & Memorials 2: Little Jimmy Dickens & George Jones The George Jones Museum and the Celebration of Life for Little Jimmy Dickens are examples of recent memorials. Deborah Wilbrink No Comments
