To the Editor:
Re “Does Anyone Collect Old Emails?” (Op-Ed, April 6):
Peter Funt raises a fascinating question about how memories get preserved in the digital age.
The digital age actually lets us live with our memories. We have a computer in our kitchen/family room. The sleep screen randomly displays thousands of photos. They just appear all the time when we are not using the computer.
No paper version of these photos would let us continually see our children and grandchildren throughout their years.
Times change, and so will our ability to enjoy memories.
Frayda Levin
Mountain Lakes, N.J.
To the Editor:
Peter Funt hits one of the unintended consequences of electronic communication.
As a historian, I lamented this loss of printed records when email began, and routinely printed and saved representative emails my children sent. I also saved other printed memorabilia.
I have reread these emails every year or two with as much joy as I have had rereading letters I sent my parents while I was traveling abroad in the 1970s. (My mom saved her children’s memorabilia as well as her own — every bank check back to 1943, when she married.)
If I have grandchildren, I suspect that they will be interested in glimpsing their parents’ lives.
Thea Volpe-Browne
Jersey City
To the Editor:
As a sentimental 65-year-old collector of memorabilia, I have found it advantageous to scan old photos and papers and store them in various albums on my iPad Mini. It makes for a much easier walk down memory lane for someone with health issues.
That said, I still enjoy carrying in my wallet a 1966 San Francisco Giants ticket stub as a reminder of my wonderful, first-ever airplane trip, which included the one and only visit of my lifetime to Candlestick Park to see my childhood sports hero, Willie Mays.
Fred Cantor
Westport, Conn.
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Opinion | Keeping the Stuff of Memories, Even in the Digital Age
To the Editor:
Re “Does Anyone Collect Old Emails?” (Op-Ed, April 6):
Peter Funt raises a fascinating question about how memories get preserved in the digital age.
The digital age actually lets us live with our memories. We have a computer in our kitchen/family room. The sleep screen randomly displays thousands of photos. They just appear all the time when we are not using the computer.
No paper version of these photos would let us continually see our children and grandchildren throughout their years.
Times change, and so will our ability to enjoy memories.
Frayda Levin
Mountain Lakes, N.J.
To the Editor:
Peter Funt hits one of the unintended consequences of electronic communication.
As a historian, I lamented this loss of printed records when email began, and routinely printed and saved representative emails my children sent. I also saved other printed memorabilia.
I have reread these emails every year or two with as much joy as I have had rereading letters I sent my parents while I was traveling abroad in the 1970s. (My mom saved her children’s memorabilia as well as her own — every bank check back to 1943, when she married.)
If I have grandchildren, I suspect that they will be interested in glimpsing their parents’ lives.
Thea Volpe-Browne
Jersey City
To the Editor:
As a sentimental 65-year-old collector of memorabilia, I have found it advantageous to scan old photos and papers and store them in various albums on my iPad Mini. It makes for a much easier walk down memory lane for someone with health issues.
That said, I still enjoy carrying in my wallet a 1966 San Francisco Giants ticket stub as a reminder of my wonderful, first-ever airplane trip, which included the one and only visit of my lifetime to Candlestick Park to see my childhood sports hero, Willie Mays.
Fred Cantor
Westport, Conn.
Source: Read Full Article