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Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Wed, 09/15/2010 - 09:55Orient Lodge is an eclectic news site focusing on Politics, Technology, Media, Social Networks, Marketing, The Arts, Connecticut News as well as stories missed by more traditional outlets.
Family Book
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Fri, 01/27/2012 - 23:36Today, I spent hours in a car heading from Pennsylvania to North Carolina with members of my family as we all converge for my niece's wedding. I've spent a bit of time studying the family history and it provided some great opportunities for discussion.
My mother spoke about relatives, childhood neighbors, and the history of houses. She wondered who was still around and what stories they could tell. She reflected about how much more mobile people are these days and how people don't have the same sense of community they did when she was young.
Of course, living in the world of social media, I thought about the communities that I'm part of. I thought about how my mobility and online connections have led me to have friends around the world.
Yet so much of the online connections are about the here and now. The sense of history is missing, and no I don't think Facebook Timelines does a lot to address it.
I have spent time exploring genealogy online. I haven't used any of the paid sites, but I don't find the sense of close knit community that I do in some of my Facebook communities. Is there the possibility to find or establish some sort of online community, or at least repository of stories about the small family farms clustered along side the Connecticut River, extended families on the edge of the White Mountains, or workers in some old New England mills? Is there the possibility of some sort of Family Book?
In the end, perhaps, it all comes down to the stories. The stories we share on Facebook, the stories we share during long car rides. Some of the stories get saved. Others get lost.
Family Book
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Fri, 01/27/2012 - 23:36Today, I spent hours in a car heading from Pennsylvania to North Carolina with members of my family as we all converge for my niece's wedding. I've spent a bit of time studying the family history and it provided some great opportunities for discussion.
My mother spoke about relatives, childhood neighbors, and the history of houses. She wondered who was still around and what stories they could tell. She reflected about how much more mobile people are these days and how people don't have the same sense of community they did when she was young.
Of course, living in the world of social media, I thought about the communities that I'm part of. I thought about how my mobility and online connections have led me to have friends around the world.
Yet so much of the online connections are about the here and now. The sense of history is missing, and no I don't think Facebook Timelines does a lot to address it.
I have spent time exploring genealogy online. I haven't used any of the paid sites, but I don't find the sense of close knit community that I do in some of my Facebook communities. Is there the possibility to find or establish some sort of online community, or at least repository of stories about the small family farms clustered along side the Connecticut River, extended families on the edge of the White Mountains, or workers in some old New England mills? Is there the possibility of some sort of Family Book?
In the end, perhaps, it all comes down to the stories. The stories we share on Facebook, the stories we share during long car rides. Some of the stories get saved. Others get lost.
Road Trip
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Fri, 01/27/2012 - 00:07After a day of work, it was an evening of driving through the dark and rain. There wasn't much to see, other than the lights of the Tappan Zee Bridge, of various radio towers, and the lights of various cities. We've checked into a hotel in Pennsylvania on our way to my niece's wedding in North Carolina.
The heating unit is making the whirring sort of sounds that are all too familiar in inexpensive hotels and outside the window, you can hear the trucks rolling by.
I don't have much energy to write this evening, and we'll see how much writing, or, for that matter, any other online social interaction I can muster over the next few days.
Wordless Wednesday
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Wed, 01/25/2012 - 19:52
