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Stunning portraits of your family heirlooms
Photo by Veronica Olson I do speak Instagram, albeit not fluently. A few weeks ago, I finally grasped the benefit of hashtags (late to the game, I know!) {FYI, Hashtags categorize peoples’ posts. You...
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Chalkboards & Snapshots from 100 Years Ago
Photo by the Washington Post I recently read a Washington Post article that thoroughly enchanted me. “Haunting Chalkboard Drawings, Frozen in Time for 100 Years, Discovered in Oklahoma School.” Dozens...
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The Man Who Changed Everything
People ask me all the time, “How did you come up with the idea for StoryKeep?”. “Lou.” They usually lean in and repeat it as a question. “Lou?” Lou Zandoli is an ornery guy. His parents were from...
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Heirlooms of New York
Photo via Gothamist, courtesy of Madison Square Park Storykeep’s headquarters are located in a stark but up-and-coming Brooklyn neighborhood called Gowanus. In just the few short years that we’ve been...
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Q & A with Prospect Park Alliance Historian Amy Peck
Interview by Jamie Yuenger You’ve been an archivist and an historian for the Prospect Park Alliance for almost 15 years. What are you currently working on that excites you? In 1966 the centennial of...
View ArticleNow Playing on YouTube: The 20th Century
Best known as a clearinghouse for viral videos, YouTube is also one of the Internet’s richest repositories of historical films, a treasure trove for journalists, educators, and history enthusiasts. And...
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“The Struggle Behind How Everything Came to Be”
an interview with archivist Janine St. Germain Persian Line II, Leonard Street Loft, 1975. via Robertkushnerstudio.com For 20 years, Janine St. Germain has been helping organizations leverage their...
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Troubled Corner of Prospect Park Set for Revamp
Last month, we published an interview in which Prospect Park historian Amy Peck talked about being an “accidental” archivist and searching for a time capsule buried in 1966, among other things. Shortly...
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Death is the new black: a lively interview with funeral director Amy Cunningham
Interview by Jamie Yuenger Amy Cunningham is a licensed funeral director in New York City. She specializes in green burial, home vigils, and personalized cremation services at Green-Wood Cemetery’s...
View ArticleSilent Family Film: the story of Donna Mae
If you have old silent films, don’t let them turn to dust, and moreover, give them meaning by recording the important stories that go along with them. Let us help you tell the stories that matter....
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Recording Around the Hearth: The Montauk Storytelling Event
I became a member of the Montauk Club when I first moved to Brooklyn ten years ago. The Venetian Gothic architecture struck me first, the creative cocktails second. When I heard that the Montauk Club...
View ArticleStory #1: The Peach-Slurping Game
We’re kicking off 2016 with a new video series about the excitement and joy of capturing family stories. Each bite-sized clip features StoryKeep founder Jamie Yuenger sharing a personal story or an...
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Kelly and Ivy’s Story
Allison McSorley Photography Many families we work with want to capture somebody later in life. Kelly, on the other hand, wanted StoryKeep to help capture a moment in her daughter’s life and her...
View ArticleRusi and Gover’s Engagement Story
The story of how Rusi proposed to Gover on a balcony in Bombay over 60 years ago is the stuff of family legend. StoryKeep was able to capture the story in gorgeous detail for future generations of the...
View ArticleStory #2: Your Life, Framed
It’s February – time for our second video about the joy and excitement of capturing family stories. In this 90-second clip, StoryKeep founder Jamie Yuenger talks about the difference between a...
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What Are Heirloom Portraits and How Can I Create Them?
Let me introduce you to Rachel LaCour Niesen, the founder of Save Family Photos. Rachel is a photographer, and like me, is perpetually inspired by other people’s family photos. Her site offers buckets...
View ArticleAunt Mazella’s Pound Cake
No one made pound cake like Umi’s Aunt Mazella. “Her cake made everyone happy,” Umi says. “It won so many prizes, and whenever anybody got together together to have a chance to eat her cake, it was...
View ArticleLou’s legacy video: How one man inspired me to produce life story films
One of the best things about my job is meeting amazing people from families just like yours. Documenting and sharing their stories with their families is my life’s calling, something I realized five...
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The Surprising Backstory on Mom
“I grew up in Geneva, and when I was 19, I was part of a group of guys who all raced very fast cars…a Lotus, a Maserati…even one had a Ferrari, which I never drove, unfortunately. We would do mountain...
View ArticleAl Lasher: The Saga of the Vanguard
College is where many people meet their spouses, choose a career, and make friends for life. So it’s no surprise that StoryKeep records a lot of school and college stories. Since it’s graduation...
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