HAPPY NEW YEAR 2013!!
To help celebrate the brand new year, I thought I would share an account about a 30 year diary and its author that was the subject of story by Alden O'Brien in her Tales from the Vault
Sylvia Lewis Tyler, the author of the diary, also has a memorial posted for her on "Find A Grave" that lists the names of her children.
If you are up for a good read this last day of the old year that just might hold your interest enough to extend into your new year, may I suggest settling down with this story. You may be prompted to add your own comments to the others already posted about it when you are finished.
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**Alden O'Brien is the curator of costume, textiles, and toys at the DAR
Museum in Washington, D.C. Her exhibits have included "The Stuff of
Childhood: Artifacts and Attitudes 1750-1900," "Costume Myths and
Mysteries," and "Something Old, Something New: Inventing the American
Wedding." She is currently working on "Fashioning the New Woman," an
exhibit on women and fashions of the Progressive Era
