Where DO All The Memories Go? My Life Story and Extended Family Influences.

Everyone has a story -- and it should be told.

Someone has observed: "The death of an elderly person is the equivalent of a library burning down."

Tell your story while your sources of memories are still around.

If you have ever thought about telling your own story, this beautiful and humorous memoir is a must-have book. D. Lowell Nissley, son of photographer parents, grew up immersed in photographs, as the family traveled back and forth between Pennsylvania and Florida during the 1920's and 1930's. His father grew up on a Mennonite farm in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and in 1903 at age 21, traded his pitchfork for a camera and sought his fortune by clicking his shutter at children. He has preserved some amazing photographs of his family in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in the late 1800's and early 1900's.

Lowell's mother grew up in the environs of The Main Line, west of Philadelphia, from Italian (Bogia), Irish (McClosky), and French (Dubois) anchestry. She too, took up photography after her first husband died from tuberculosis in 1906, leaving her with no home, no job, tuberculosis, and five small chidren.

This handsome 130 page memoir contains over 200 photographs dating from 1857. Some of the sources of this book come from bundles of 150 year-old letters and diaries tied with ribbons. A small wooden box contains several Civil War diaries of Lowell's grandfather who served as a surgical assistant. He describes the endless line of amputations, dead horses in the creek, singing crickets and insects at night, and black flies, attracted to the blood, during the day. He watched Atlanta burn from a high point north of town. It was during the battle of Gettysburg that Lowell's grandfather and great-grandfather met each other for the first time.

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WHAT THEY SAY:
"I sat down with your book, intending to thumb through it and read it when I had time--later. I ended up sitting there reading the entire book from cover to cover. I laughed out loud many times and had tears in my eyes. What a wonderful story!" -- Pennsylvania

"Your book reached me on Tuesday and so far I've read it three times, absorbing those fabulous photographs. --California

"There is only one way to describe it --- "WOW!" --Indiana

Threshing Rig 1908

Nissley Family Portrait, 1886. This is the oldest known photo of my father’s family. My father is the young man on the front row. (see page 3).	Atlantic Gas & Oil, 1918. My uncle, Frank Smiley, stands on the running board of his Mack delivery truck. (see page 75)
Family Camping, Honey Brook, Pennsylvania, 1923. My mother joins her older brother and his wife, along with some of us kids, in an early family camping experience. (page 73)	A Load of Hay, 1938. My father kneels in front of a load of alfalfa hay picked up by Jack Young on the Arthur Guy farm, Malvern, Pennsylvania. (see page 43)
Mary Josephine Bogia Madden, 1920. My Grandmother was only sixteen when John Madden came home from the Civil War and they were married (see page 18).	Motor Home, 1923 Vintage. My sister sits on the fender, and I’m in the chair, of my father’s 1920’s version of a motor home. The kid on the hood is George Waugaman, next door neighbor. (see page 72)
Where Do All The Memories Go?	Jay Whitwill, 1950. Jay was a naval pharmacist who sought discharge from the navy as a conscientious objector to war. One and a half years later after repeated drug injections, straight jackets, and life in a naval mental hospital, Jay did receive his discharge. (see page 100)

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