My Italian grandmother is dying and taking all our family recipes with her because she never wrote them down, and I realize I know nothing about preserving what made us who we are.
More people experience this than they realize.
Cultural knowledge dies with elders when transmission fails, leaving descendants scrambling to recover what was always assumed to be permanent.
“Where Are You with Cultural assimilation vs. preservation?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.