Jackson, Mississippi
Jackson's historic streets, museums and gardens hold generations of everyday life. Your part in that story is worth keeping, in your own voice.
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What dish do people in Jackson always ask you to bring, and how did you learn to make it?
Eudora Welty found her stories close to home, and yours are close by too: the sound of your house on a weekday evening, the yard, the dish everyone asks for. ToldForward helps you gather them one small detail at a time. Your tastes and opinions are kept as carefully as your memories, for the friends and family you name.
Jackson, Mississippi
Farish Street is one of Jackson's local historic districts, and every neighborhood in the city has stories of its own. Who lived next door when you were young? Where did people gather after church or after work? Which porch, corner or diner did everyone seem to know? What has changed, and what has stayed the same? You have made big choices in your own life too, about work, faith and the people you love. Write down the ones you are proud of, and why.
At the Eudora Welty House and Garden, run with the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, you can step inside the rooms where Welty wrote and walk through the garden she tended with care. She found her stories close to home, and yours are close by too. What did your own house sound like on a weekday evening? What grew in the yard, and who looked after it? Tell it the way you saw it, one small detail at a time.
Downtown, the Mississippi Museum of Art welcomes visitors to its galleries and to the Art Garden next door. And every circle of family and friends has its favorite meals. What dish do people always ask you to bring? What picture, song or story has moved you most? Your tastes and opinions are part of your character, and they deserve to be kept as carefully as your memories. Write them down plainly, and they will sound just like you.
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The people you name receive your whole record. With Archive Membership they can also ask a guide, which looks through what you wrote and shows them your own words.
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