We Nine
Keeping the Family Pictures Safe
told by Bernie Guild
The narrator identifies a photograph as the only known picture of the whole family together and celebrates the many other family photographs preserved for the book. Cousin Merlin Ringering supplied pictures of early generations, while Iris rescued precious photographs from an old olive-drab strongbox and kept them safe. Many are being seen for the first time. The pictures in subsequent chapters are arranged roughly chronologically rather than necessarily illustrating nearby stories; assembling so many pictures made the book a long time coming, but worth the wait.
In the family's own words
This is the only known photograph ever taken of our whole family together. We are blessed, however, with many other wonderful family pictures, including those of the early generations given to us by our cousin, Merlin Ringering, and those precious pictures kept in safety by Iris, who liberated them from the old olive-drab strongbox early-on knowing that they would surely gradually disappear if she did not. She was no doubt right about that. And so, thank you, Iris; we are glad to see those pictures in this book—many for the first time. In the chapters that follow, the pictures are placed chronologically, more or less, and do not necessarily illustrate the story near them. This book has been a long time coming because it has so many pictures, every one worth waiting for!
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