What the Fourth of July Teaches Us About Legacy

Every Fourth of July, a founding story is retold — not because it needs to be relearned, but because it was written down clearly enough to endure. The documents survived. The story survived with them.

Family stories rarely get that same treatment. They are told once at a barbecue, half-remembered at a funeral, and then, gradually, lost. This holiday is a fitting reminder that the stories worth keeping are the ones someone took the time to preserve — deliberately, and before it was too late. That is the work we do year-round, one family at a time.