So, now that the process of collecting and scanning the initial photos is coming to a close my thoughts turn to how to cram a football field full of information into a yard of book space.
How does one go about displaying a life's work in a fashion that is natural and makes sense to the reader? I thought about using categories of places as dividers and then put photos and stories from each place next to each other on pages. For example, everything that happened at the lakehouse no matter what year. A collage of information, stories, pictures right together on adjacent pages.
Or how about we open the book with the grandchildren (shamesless grab for attention by me) and then work our way back to Grandma's childhood? Or I could highlight specific stories that she mentioned and then build the pictures around that?
Or the best idea (read: least amount of thought required) would be start at the beginning and end at present. I thought this would be natural and make sense to the reader (again, read: I'm slow and don't have to think a lot this way). So, unless there is a change of heart down the road, chronological order rules the day.
The book will be split up into 4 distinct sections: Ancestors, Childhood, Raising a Family, and The Golden Years.
