Keywords
Internship Experience, Western French Pyrenees, History
Abstract
I stood in a small grove of trees, which afforded a respite from the misty rain. Streams of fog crept along the valley walls and covered the village of Aydius in foamy white waves. I admired the engravings decorating the lchante household- the heartfelt expression of a peasant farmer and shepherd. I would never have imagined that my internship and study abroad would culminate here, reading my ancestor's memoirs chiseled in stone. Yet here I was, thousands of miles from home, alone in a foreign country, away from the pristine comfort of the regional archives, reading Joseph lchante's legacy carved in stone in the company of his "compatriots and companions: nature and the trees."
Recommended Citation
Woodbury, Paul
(2014)
"Memories in Stone: Family History Research in the Western Pyrenees,"
The Thetean: A Student Journal for Scholarly Historical Writing: Vol. 43:
Iss.
1, Article 10.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/thetean/vol43/iss1/10
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