For those of us with families, children and grandchildren, life moves so rapidly. I can remember when my children were growing up. Because of the number of activities they were involved in, it often felt like a 3 ring circus around the house. Three of my kids were competitive swimmers. And we spent many weekends on the road, traveling around from city to city and sometimes out of state, where they competed at swim meets.
I would take the occasional picture, and mount them in an endless number of photo albums. However, in more recent years I discovered they had began to yellow significantly. Fortunately, I was able to restore them by scanning, and photo editing them back to some semblance of life.
But earlier this afternoon, I came across a little wooden box I had put away at the back of my closet and hadn’t revisited in years. Inside were a number of newspaper clippings. They were the inevitable ones that many folks hang onto – Family obituaries, wedding news, and other eventful articles relating to my family. Also in the little box were a few clippings related to the old swimming days of my kids. And I noticed that like the photographs that had been in the albums, becoming yellowed with time, these clippings were also beginning to show the wear and tare of age.
It is important for those who collect articles important to their families, to treat them with the same care we do photographs or other photo media. News clippings need to be scanned to a computer and digitally preserved, in their present state before any further deterioration occurs.
So just as I have scanned old photographs and photo slides in the past. This afternoon I spent time scanning and preserving news clippings for future generations of our family. You may want to consider doing the same. Time moves faster than smoke through a keyhole. And the effect it has on photographs and news clippings is the color, “yellow.”
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