Scrapbooking Hobby/Craft Rescues Baby Boomer Memories

Scrapbooking Hobby/Craft Rescues Baby Boomer Memories: "Scrapbooking Hobby/Craft Rescues Baby Boomer Memories

By Gabriel Goldberg

As a baby boomer, I'm hardly unusual in having a large box of photographs in my closet. Also likely common is my photos' diversity: fading Polaroid baby pictures, travel shots, family gathering commemorations, images of people and places I can't identify, some professional photography, and quite a lot of etc. In addition, I have a few photo albums — created when my parents thought I was cute and when I worked to record and remember vacations.

But the years have generated a lot of unorganized pictures, and I'm falling further behind in making sense of them. Worse, the photographs suffer from improper storage: being folded, fading, cracking, sticking together. Even the ones supposedly preserved in albums are being damaged by invisible hazards."