http://www.501places.com/2012/03/remembering-the-past-why-we-should-listen-to-our-parents/ Travel stories that won't change the world Wed, 11 Jun 2014 06:07:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.2 http://www.501places.com/2012/03/remembering-the-past-why-we-should-listen-to-our-parents/#comment-69694 Thu, 29 Mar 2012 21:07:20 +0000 http://www.501places.com/?p=8283#comment-69694 Seeing monuments and other memorials is often powerful, but it’s also amazing to hear stories of the past from the people who actually lived it. Great post!

]]> http://www.501places.com/2012/03/remembering-the-past-why-we-should-listen-to-our-parents/#comment-69683 Sun, 25 Mar 2012 19:52:18 +0000 http://www.501places.com/?p=8283#comment-69683 I’m guessing you mean Westerners when you use “us” in this article – a very interesting piece of writing. The ideas you’re wrestling with remind me of a book called “State Repression and the Labors of Memory” by Elizabeth Jelin – you should definitely look into it, as she goes very deep into this idea of different people experiencing monuments and memories differently.

]]> http://www.501places.com/2012/03/remembering-the-past-why-we-should-listen-to-our-parents/#comment-69675 Wed, 21 Mar 2012 09:42:05 +0000 http://www.501places.com/?p=8283#comment-69675 In my city there is an archive with audio files featuring people telling their stories going back to the first half of 20th century. Their tales are mostly unobjective but they often describe matters historians haven’t figured out yet.

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