Stephanie Siegel says in her article in Atlanta's neighbourhood newspaper ..."Douglas County Commissioner Mike Mulcare considers himself fortunate that his mother, Elanora Kaiser Mulcare, taped notes explaining the other pretty things she passed down."
Another heirloom, Mulcare found when his mother died in 2001. “I found two pieces of cloth folded up neatly with the note ‘these were done by Johnnie’ — John William Mulcare, my father.
These type of objects often turn up in oxes of items stored by family members, it's lucky Mike's Mom thought to place labels with them because often nobody does and then their significance to the family is often lost or hidden.
A case in point is a photo of a "famous" racehorse once held in my family "Mountain Knight, a story largely lost except for the family story reseach uncovering the story I have been able to undertake myself.
Encourage your loved ones to write small notes and include them with objects or write on the back of phtos, in sift pencil preferably, to preserve th story and pass it on before it is too late.
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