Objects of Our Affection
12/02/10
Objects of Our Affection
Lisa Tracy
Show Description:
What starts as an exercise in information gathering designed to boost the estate’s resale value at auction evolves into a quest that takes Lisa Tracy from her New Jersey home to the Philippines and, ultimately, back to the town where she grew up. These travels open her eyes to a rich family history characterized by duty, hardship, honor, and devotion—qualities embodied in the very items she intends to sell. Here is an inventory unlike any other: silver gewgaws, dueling pistols that once belonged to Aaron Burr (no, not those pistols), a stately storage chest from Boxer Rebellion–era China, providentially recovered family documents, even a chair in which George Washington may or may not have sat—each piece cherished and passed down to Lisa’s generation as an emblem of who her forebears were, what they had done, and where they had been. Each is cataloged here with all the richness and intimacy that only a family member could bring to the endeavor.
“Even as we know we should be winnowing, we’re wallowing,” observes Lisa Tracy in one of her characteristically trenchant observations about America’s abiding obsession with “stuff.” A paean to the pack rat in us all, Objects of Our Affection offers an offbeat and intriguing mix of cultural anthropology, Antiques Roadshow Americana, and military history and lore, as well as a thoughtful meditation on the emotional resonance of objects—what they mean and the oh-so-fascinating stories they tell.
http://www.objectsofouraffection.com
Guest Bio:
Lisa Tracy is a former journalist with The Philadelphia Inquirer, where she served as Home & Design editor, managing editor of the venerable Sunday Magazine, and a member of the editorial board. She is a graduate of Oberlin College, with an M.A. in English from Rutgers University. The author of five books, she also teaches creative nonfiction, literature, and composition. Having lived throughout the country, Lisa is now at home in the bucolic Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, together with the remaining family treasures she managed, with renewed respect and reverence, not to sell off.
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