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Article: Seniors record stories to preserve personal history.(THE HOME FORUM)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
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- May 27, 2008
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Byline: Marilyn Gardner Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
Like most people, Hedrick Ellis grew up listening to his parents and grandparents tell family stories. As a teenager, he often tuned them out. But this year, eager to keep those memories alive, he hired a personal historian to interview his father and mother.
"You hear these stories over the years, but nobody ever really gets around to writing them down," says Mr. Ellis of ArlingA-ton, Mass. "This seemed like an easy and practical way of capturing them."
In this age of the memoir, not all fascinating lives belong to notable individuals. Across the country, people like Ellis ...