In the early 1980s, the Young family Bible was passed down to me from my father. We had looked at it together much earlier, especially the family records it contained. All of the entries for births and deaths, beginning in 1802 and ending in 1890, were in the same hand, presumably my great-grandfather’s.
For years after I received it, I did the time-honored family thing: kept it wrapped in brown paper and twine and on a closet shelf. I did eventually buy an acid-free box to store it in, but it was fragile. The binding was coming apart, the ink on the family records was fading, and some of the pages were loose.
To continue reading, please see my post today at Dancing Priest.
Photograph: a page of records in the family Bible, before restoration.
Some Wednesday Readings
World War II, Remembered Rightly – Philip Jenkins at The Imaginative Conservative.
A Gathering of Old Men – Brian Miller at Notes from an East Tennessee Farmer.
Family Matters –Alan Jacobs at The Homebound Symphony.
Political Violence Happens Because We Let It – Charles Fain Lehman at The Free Press.
“Snow-Bound,” poem by John Greenleaf Whittier – Joseph Bottum at Poems Ancient and Modern.
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