Keepsakes
Little Pieces of History. It's interesting what people choose to keep. Sometimes it's the big things, and sometimes it's the smallest, most unexpected mementos that end up telling us the most about someone. While continuing to sort through old family treasures, I came across a couple of my dad's scrapbooks. He had a habit of saving newspaper articles that caught his interest, carefully clipping them out and tucking them away for another day. Hidden inside an envelope marked "Dad's Signature" was a tiny scrap of paper bearing my grandfather's signature. Why my dad saved it, I'll probably never know, but somehow it caught my eye all these years later. I carefully tucked it right back into its little envelope, preserving this tiny time capsule for another generation to wonder about. My dad was a U.S. history teacher for several years before becoming principal of the junior high school in the mid-1960s, at the remarkably young age of just 28! He had a ...
