Word: memorabilia
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...humble cooking utensils were precious symbols of their legacies as our family matriarchs. Their love was profoundly expressed through the rich, spicy delicacies delivered to all who came to visit during the holidays. Sadly, their kitchens and the dinners that graced them are no more. All the tangible memorabilia that represented our family's history perished in the flood, including my mother's beloved big gumbo...
...third storyline follows Nick, a forger of famous autographs who plies his trade in a sports memorabilia shop. Not content with merely ripping off customers, he soon finds ways of stealing from his boss, who has ties to organized crime. Eventually Nick crosses paths with Caprice, who works as a waitress and struggles with a self-destructive streak that always seems to lead her to the wrong guys. Meanwhile Phoebe, a teenager from the sticks, arrives at the diner where Caprice works in order to find the owner, her father who left her 15 years earlier. Lastly, and most memorably...
What may seem to be the least valuable--the day-to-day memorabilia of an ordinary life--may be a hidden treasure. Retired banker Arden Peterson, 62, who is in the process of downsizing, let his son Mitch, an iSold It trading assistant in Lakeville, Minn., put a 1929 $10 bank note from his collection on eBay just for fun (but also because a very rare 1905 $10 bank note had sold on eBay a month earlier for $27,000). The fun turned serious when Peterson's bank note fetched $1,037. Going through a lifetime of boxes...
...BROWN, 81, cowboy-hatted roots guitarist and fiddler who continually protested against being labeled a bluesman, insisting that his fusion of jazz, country, R&B and Cajun defied categorization; in Orange, Texas. He died 10 days after evacuating his home in Slidell, Louisiana, which housed half a century of memorabilia, and was razed by Hurricane Katrina. Nicknamed for his deep voice, he got his break in 1949 at Houston's Bronze Peacock club when T-Bone Walker fell ill and Brown jumped on stage and began riffing. ("I made $600 in 15 minutes from customers," he boasted.) A collaborator with...
Jonathan (Elijah Wood) is a collector with a limited range and a deep, if enigmatically motivated, passion. What he saves is family memorabilia--his grandma's false teeth, a dollar bill, even dirt from ground that is somehow hallowed in family memory. All this stuff he seals in plastic Baggies and pins to a wall in his room. One of his most prized possessions is a photograph of his grandfather with a Ukrainian woman who, according to family legend, saved his life during World War II. In Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan journeys to the Ukraine to discover her fate...