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WHAT IS YOUR FAMILY STORY?

OUR FAMILY ROOTS SHAPE OUR IDENTITY.

CLICK THE IMAGE TO READ AN OUTSTANDING ARTICLE ABOUT DISCOVERING OUR FAMILY’S HISTORY, WHETHER FOR GOD OR BAD. THE PAST LIES IN THE TRUNK AND ROOTS OF OUR FAMIYL TREE.

WHO IS THE KEEPER OF YOUR FAMILY TREE?

Who is the Keeper of the Family Story in your family? This post reminded me of how I accepted little knowledge of my family’s long history until recently and in digging into my ancestry did I discover facts about my family tree I never knew, but explained my love of the South.

I suggest reading the poem by Abram Ryan, “A Land Without Ruins” at the end of the article. “A land without ruins is a land without memories—a land without memories is a land without history.”

We all have a family history, a family tree that has shaped us and gives us our identity. We had no say, nor any opinion of its creation, but we are a branch sprouted from our family tree. The branch with our name on it could not exist apart from our family roots. The good, the bad, and the ugly, the right and wrong, the just and unjust of our family’s past shape, but not define who we are. We can only make a difference for future generations.

What will your legacy add to your family tree?

A LESSON LEARNED FROM MY NEW HISTORICAL NOVEL

My longtime editor summed up The Last Laird of Sapelo this way: “Set at the beginning of the Civil War, this historical fiction novel stands out because it tells a perspective most people likely have not heard. It helped me see the Civil War more in shades of gray rather than in black and white (I mean this metaphorically as well as literally).” Interesting enough, Kari Scare is from Michigan. With all the diverse, divisive issues today, we need to address more of the grayness in history to learn from it.

Sapelo Lighthouse, circa 1860

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