A Memory Journey

Family & Home

Every family has a centre of gravity. Walk into the rooms Harlan grew up in and later kept — the parents, the chair, the ordinary devotions that hold a family together.

2memories 2people 1place 1object ~4min read

Who you'll meet

HalHarlan's brother HarlanThe subject of every story

Places & things

The world these memories move through — each one opens onto everywhere else it appears.

The den Place The blue recliner Object Harlan's passing Event

The memories

In the order they happened — walk them slowly.

  1. May 2021

    Teaching Me to Drive Stick

    Third gear, he said, was where a man's patience really lived.

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  2. September 3, 2021

    The Blue Chair

    He rescued that chair from the curb three times.

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Photographs

Faces from these memories. Open one to step into the full gallery.

Wander further

2 memories Humor The stories that made everyone laugh, and a few that still do. 1 memory Childhood Growing up in Toledo — the streets, the small adventures, the beginning of everything. 2 memories Faith & Traditions Shabbat kept most Fridays — sometimes imperfectly, always on purpose. 2 memories Loss & Memory What remains after someone is gone — and how the remembering keeps going. 1 memory Objects & Places The small, unremarkable things that turned out to hold a whole life.

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More ways to walk the archive.

Story The Blue Chair He rescued that chair from the curb three times. Story No. 214 Person Hal Harlan's brother 10 memories Place The den A family home in Toledo, Ohio 1 memory Object The blue recliner Rescued from the curb three times over twenty years 1 memory Event Harlan's passing Funeral arrangements were held in Toledo, Ohio. 1 memory Journey Humor The stories that made everyone laugh, and a few that still do. 2 memories
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