This week’s roundup is an eclectic mix from cookie recipes to e-mailed last messages. Enjoy!
- Code Talkers speaking out to teach history of messaging system: “A Navajo Code Talkers museum is being planned in Window Rock, the capital of the Navajo Nation.”
- Memories next to cookie recipes make great stories: “I won’t be able to leave much to my kids after I’m gone someday, but something tells me they won’t mind getting my cookbooks – not for the recipes but for the hand-scribbled notes written inside – of first laughs, school lunchboxes and stitches from playground falls.”
- Shipwreck pocket watch returned after 128 years: “A glimpse of something shiny on the ocean floor nine years ago led a Welsh diver to uncover a piece of local history that had been forgotten for more than a century.”
- Home is where the history is: “When Lt Ali Darwish built a palm hut outside his house six years ago, he intended nothing more than to create a simple space in which he could commemorate his family’s history…Today, what is now known as the Bin Darwish Heritage Village includes a replica of a kitchen, a traditional stone flour grinder, two types of well, a restored 1958 Land Rover, three six-metre models of traditional boats, an elevated sleeping platform and two cannon donated by the RAK Police.” Thanks to Larry Lehmer at Passing It On for alerting me to this article.
- Last Messages Club: “…sends your personal thoughts and essential data by email to your friends and loved ones after you die.”
- The Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive: “exists to maintain a collection of oral testimonies of those who survived the Holocaust and make these widely accessible for educational purposes.”
- Family stories still Coppola’s inspiration: “In the beginning, the Corleones made him famous, and Francis Ford Coppola is still making films about family. Just not that family.”
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