A recent event for older people at a resource centre in the Isle of Man illustrates how an imaginative programme for older people might cover both current and past events. Older people currently alive did not live through the first world war - it was before their time - but their parents and other contacts in their earlier lives will have had a personal connection with the privations suffered in the first world war. So there will be a personal link to remembrance. And remembering the war is going to be very current for all of us who may be discovering new understanding of this war. Even if it's almost history now for most of us, our improved understanding of and response to the life of a families in the past is not history but present currency.
Link to the Isle of Man article
No comments:
Post a Comment