Several people have mentioned letters. Another great treasure. One of the ways that I kept my sanity through many hard years was by writing endless letters to my buddy Art Thieme. I kept carbons (remember carbons) of the letters that I wrote to Art that had descriptions of family adventures (and kept many of Art's too.) A couple of years ago, I went through my boxes of letters and pulled out all the references to my two sons as they were growing up, going back to when my 26 year old was a todler. I combined them into one running collection of great, funny, hard, painful remembrances and ended up with 36 pages. I think that they appreciate them. I sure get a kick out of reading them.. Now, with everyone on the computer, will anyone print out hard copies of e-mail and save them? Something else lost to progress.
Jerry