"KEEPING MEMORIES ALIVE" IS IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY DAD
In early 1996 I started a hobby that resulted in this history book being written. It started as a project to get my picture albums organized. When I was finished, I had all these old pictures left over that were my Great Grandparents, John and Margaret Hirtz, and some of their personal papers and Grandpa's journals. What could I do with them? There were so many interesting things in them. Although Grandpa and Grandma Hirtz had died when I was in my early teens, their memory had remained an important part of my life. And I realized it was because my dad, John Mitchell, had continued to talk about them, and tell stories about them and by doing so he had kept those memories alive.
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