My family has been working on a collaborative cookbook with handwritten family recipes but my aunt insists on rewriting everything in her own style while my grandmother wants them preserved exactly as written. The project meant to honor our food memories is becoming a battle over whose version of our history gets externalized.
More people experience this than they realize.
A family encounters the tension between honoring original forms of external memory and making them accessible for future generations.
“Where Are You with Writing and the externalization of memory?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.