Legacies I didn't know I had...

So, several years ago, my grandparents moved from their house in Texas to Michigan. And in doing so, they shed many decades worth of stuff, sometimes by force if their children deemed it necessary.

My mom took home a whole bunch of stuff that is even now lingering and cluttering up the house and our storage unit.

And i've decided that, if I want to try being an archivist, I may as well start with my own damn history.

So, to that end, I've started scanning and saving the family slides. We have thousands of them, in probably eight boxes. Or those are just the ones I know about. Decades of letters and correspondence that I also intend to scan, if only for posterity. I have trouble reading the handwriting, which just goes to show that it is really becoming a lost art.

But some of these slides... Dude, these pictures are awesome! My mom thinks that the ones I'm taking now are from my grandmother's family vacations, probably just post-WWII. I've tweaked them slightly in Photoshop, but not much; and there's not much I can do to improve on pictures that suck in the first place, which these don't.

( Some of my favorite pictures behind cut. Image heavy. )

My mom says that my grandmother's family were avid shutterbugs, which is totally backed up with the amount of slides and negatives I've found.

This is going to be fun.