this will be an experiment in sharing photos and old family stories with the nexus being my father, wilson john hutcheson, henceforth "wjh" for short.
the postings will not necessarily be chronological and not all about wjh. they will be mostly random shapshots ranging through time and family.
when i was growing up i heard next to nothing about my father's family or his childhood or where he was from. eventually he wanted to fill that gap and in 1975 he flew his two adult children to alabama...an exotic place for two west coasters...to meet his mother and other family and show us where he was born. i since have pondered this knowledge vacuum about family and history...so typical of an age that does not look back...and what it does to how we see ourselves in the world...living unrooted without full context...the conetxt of the past. to sketch in some context, over the years i collected pieces of information and photographs from far-away family...people i never met...and i poked around archives to piece out facts. it is not a substitute for sitting on a front porch in the southern summer dusk at the feet of some ancient while tales are spun or over the kitchen table on some family get together where grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins chime in with a missing detail over some old mishap. but, my little archive of family history at least removes complete ignorance. i am looking for a way to share...we'll see how this works.
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