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An Archiving Success on the Wayback Machine

Image: Wikipedia, in the Public Domain. Hurrah! I have accomplished a goal! I've been thinking about places where I can share my Leaves on the Tree posts that document my research and family stories. I want my writing to still be available for family, friends, and fellow researchers who might want to learn more about our ancestors once I'm gone. One place I can leave my writing is on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. The Internet Archive is a nonprofit digital library of millions of free texts, movies, software, music, website, and more. The Wayback Machine is the Internet Archive's feature that allows people to visit archived versions of websites. Visitors can type in a URL, select a date range, and surf archived versions of the website. Last month, I decided to archive all  Leaves on the Tree blog posts to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. And this week, I finally finished that task. So, I now have an archive of 300+ blog posts that will be avai...
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FAVORITE PHOTO

by Nancy Gilbride Casey


This favorite photo of many I have taken over the years comes with a special anecdote.

When our daughter Anne (then known as Annie), was preschool age, she dedicated great parts of each day drawing with markers, painting with watercolors, coloring in books. In summer, she drew with chalk on the sidewalk. 

Every gift-giving occasion was another opportunity to buy a new box of crayons or paints, and reams of paper, tablets large and small, and sheaves of manila and construction paper to feed her never-ending appetite to draw.

Her artwork covered our refrigerator, was sent on to grandparents, and hung on our office bulletin boards. 

Art was already ingrained into her little personality.

Each day Annie created literally a dozen or more creations, in a free flow of imagination, wild, exotic, and uniquely from her sometimes funny and observant perspective.

On the occasion of this photo, I captured her one morning, sitting at her little art easel, paintbrush in hand, engrossed in one of that day's many creations.

"Are you going to be an artist when you grow up, Annie?" I asked.

Without taking her eyes off her artwork, and without skipping a beat, she replied,

"But Mommy...I already AM an artist!"

To this day, I can't argue with that.

 

Until next time...
 
This post was inspired by Amy Johnson Crowe's 52 Ancestor in 52 Weeks Challenge. 

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