Obituaries and reminders of hometown life

Photo by Utsav Srestha on Unsplash.

At the museum where I volunteer on Saturdays, we collect obituaries. The volunteers there have been doing it for so long that there is a long counter filled with three-ring binders separated by sections of the alphabet. The kind that reads Aa-Ar, Be-Ch, and so on.

When the local newspapers have piled up high enough, we get to cutting them. Some obituaries are brief, a name, date, and…