This is a book about Aubrey and Doris Clayton and their family. It is written in their honor, and particularly in memory of Aubrey Clayton (1918-1998) who would have been 80 years old in March of this year (1998).
Photographs are one of the first things we preserve in scrap books and film trays. Perhaps that is because a picture is worth a thousand words, and by looking at these pictures, we go back in time to another place and relive old and comfortable events. We are glad to have a wealth of pictures involving Aubrey, Doris, and their family.
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Perhaps next after photographs, we enjoy hearing the voice and listening to the stories of our family. Here we present a few audio recordings for your enjoyment.
Journals provide us with a picture of life that is the most controlled by the writer. Where pictures record everything that can be seen, and audio recordings preserve the ramblings of a mind in motion, journals give us a crafted glimpse of the author as the author wishes or consents to be seen. Because writing takes more effort than speaking or being photographed, writing tends to include just those items that are deemed most important. In some ways it can be the most honest and intimate of views. In other ways it can be the most dishonest and contrived. By reading these words you may come to know Aubrey and Doris better.
Of course no man is an island. We are part of a vast family made from the many smaller families that live and have lived. Since the beginning of time families have given us shelter and identity, have raised us to be good citizens and shared with us their dreams. Much of what we are we have adopted from our families. In this section, we see the tree stretching out over time, linking husbands and wives and children in a river of destiny, in a tree of life.
Don Colton, 1998.04.26
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