Do you know the author? Marilyn -----Original Message----- From: grammiejo <grammiejo@netzero.net> To: CRAWFORD-L@rootsweb.com <CRAWFORD-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Monday, July 19, 1999 5:58 AM Subject: A Poem for Genealogists >STRANGERS IN THE BOX > >Come, look with me inside this drawer, >In this box I've often seen, >At the pictures, black and white, >Faces proud, still, serene. >I wish I knew the people, >These strangers in the box, >Their names and all their memories >Are lost among my socks. >I wonder what their lives were like, >How did they spend their days? >What about their special times? >I'll never know their ways. >If only someone had taken time >To tell who, what, where, or when, >These faces of my heritage >Would come to life again. >Could this become the fate >Of the pictures we take today? >The faces and the memories >Someday to be passed away? >Make time to save your stories, >Seize the opportunity when it knocks, >Or someday you and yours could be >The strangers in the box. > > > >---------- > >________________________________________________________ >NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? >Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at >http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html >