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Family Heirlooms: Your Story Is Part of Your Legacy 

From childhood mischief to hard-won wisdom, the tales of our elders are family heirlooms waiting to be told and preserved.
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Family Heirlooms: Your Story Is Part of Your Legacy 
The bridge between past and present is built through stories, compassion, and memory. Liliya Krueger/Getty Images
Jeff Minick
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In “Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grand and Great,” readers discover an eccentric philosophy professor who one day asked his class a series of questions.
“How many of you can tell me something about your parents?” Everyone’s hand went up.

“How many of you can tell me something about your grandparents?” About three-quarters of the class raised their hands.

Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
Author
Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.