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New York TimesThe Leader — July 2013

“Family stories: Take note and take notes”

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Featured in an online article in a special section on Family Stories, with suggestions for recording family stories. July 18, 2013

New York TimesNew York Times — March 2013

“Hey, at Least You Can Be Virtually Immortal”

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Featured in a two-page article in a special section on Retirement, on the trend of families telling their stories in books and videos. March 13, 2013

Business WireBusiness Wire — July 2012

Legacy Multimedia of Houston Receives 2012 Videographer Awards of Distinction from Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals

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The Bellaire BuzzThe Bellaire Buzz — November 2011

Preserving Your Family History
Written by Terri Scott, Contributing Writer

No longer online (it is archived.) We have a cached version to review. (Since this article is no longer published, many of the links no longer work.)

Change MagazineChange Magazine — January 2011

Sharing Life Stories Legacy Multimedia – Artful Fun with Family Archives
Written by Terry Penrod

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Jewish Herald VoiceJewish Herald-Voice — Thursday February 18, 2010

Losing a Loved One… a Jewish Guide to End-Of-Life Issues

Written by Wendy Wall

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Houston Chronicle - January 2010The Houston Chronicle — Sunday January 17, 2010

Business Section – Small Business Feature Article
Written by Loren Steffy

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Houston ChronicleThe Houston Chronicle — Sunday July 20, 2008

Business Section – Small Business Feature Article
Written by Rachael Gleason

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Houston business JournalHouston Business Journal — June 27, 2008

Best Places to Work Issue
Article about Employee Profile DVDs
Written by Stefani Twyford

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Television & Radio

houstonmatterswebbanner_updated2014Chronicling Your Family’s History Through Film

Houston Matters with Craig Cohen<
May 20, 2014

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Money MattersMoney Matters with Christopher Hensley

Stefani Twyford: Storytelling, Family History and Making a Legacy Video
February 14, 2014

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Dialogue HoustonDialogue Houston with Laurence Payne

HCC Comcast Channel 19
August 2013

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BusinessMakersThe BusinessMakers — The Light Files

Legacy Multimedia: Visual Storyteller Stefani Twyford with Laura Max
August 24, 2013

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GeneaBlogersCapturing Family Memories – All Year Round

Geneabloggers Blog Talk Radio with Thomas McEntee
December 2, 2011

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Connections with Sarah GishOnly Connect with Sarah Gish

KPFT 90.1FM
September 22, 2011

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Dialogue HoustonDialogue Houston with Laurence Payne

HCC Comcast Channel 19
February 2010

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Stefani and CNN RadioCNN Radio – The Price of Business Featuring Kevin Price

November 6, 2009

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KPRC TVKPRC Channel 2 News – 6AM

December 16, 2007
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Online

American ChronicleThe American Chronicle — Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Legacy Multimedia: Visual Storyteller Stefani Twyford Reaches Far Beyond Celebrity Life Stories
Written by Pam Vetter

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    • QUOTES

      "The stories that we tell ourselves function to order our world, serving both a foundation upon which each of us constructs our sense of reality and filter through which we process each event that confronts us every day. The values that we cherish and wish to preserve, the behavior that we wish to censure, the tears and dread that we can barely confess in ordinary language, the aspirations and goals that we most dearly prize--all of these things are encoded in the stories that each culture invents and preserves for the next generation, stories that, in effect, we live by and through." Henry Louis Gates 


      Literary Critic, Scholar, Writer and Teacher 

      
Chair: African American Studies at Harvard University
      “In truth a family is what you make it. It is made strong, not by number of heads counted at the dinner table, but by the rituals you help family members create, by the memories you share, by the commitment of time, caring, and love you show to one another, and by the hopes for the future you have as individuals and as a unit.” The Single-Parent Family: Living Happily in a Changing World by Marge Kennedy and Janet Spencer King. New York: Crown, 1994
      “By looking into another person’s life, you need to look into your own. Whether you are the biographer or whether you are the reader. It’s like truth is stranger than fiction. When I am reading a biography, there is something more rewarding about reading about a real person’s life, rather than fiction.” On Writing Biographies: Kevin Fitzpatrick interviews Marion Meade about Buster, Woody, Zelda, and Mrs. Parker for Small Spiral Notebook
      “The art of interviewing is as personal as the art of writing. Every reporter brings a different demeanor and skill to the job of interviewing ... But all interviews are designed to accomplish one mission: Get information to advance a story. This is best achieved with organization and preparation, whether it's a five-minute phone interview or a two-hour confrontational affair.” Les Zaitz, Senior Investigative Reporter for The Oregonian from his tip sheet on interviewing
      "The secret of biography resides in finding the link between talent and achievement. A biography seems irrelevant if it doesn’t discover the overlap between what the individual did and the life that made this possible. Without discovering that, you have shapeless happenings and gossip." Leon Edel, U.S. biographer, critic. Interview in Writers at Work, Eighth Series
      "Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth, or power. Those rewards create almost as many problems as they solve. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter so the world will at least be a little bit different for our having passed through it." Rabbi Harold Kushner
      "The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it." Benjamin Disraeli
      "All the natural history required to understand consciousness is now readily available in evolutionary biology and psychology. Gene networks organize themselves to produce complex organisms whose brains permit behavior; further evolution enriches the complexity of those brains so that they can create sensory and motor maps that represent the environments they interact with; additional evolutionary complexity allows parts of the brain to talk to each other (figuratively speaking) and generate maps of the organism interacting with its environment. Within the frame of those interactions, the conversation among the maps spontaneously and continuously tells the "story" of our organism responding to and being modified by the environment. (The story is first told without words and is later translated into language when language becomes available, both in biological evolution and in every one of us.)" Antonio Damasio A Story We Tell Ourselves Time Magazine 1/18/2007
      "In all of us there is a hunger, marrow deep, to know our heritage - to know who we are and where we came from. Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning. No matter what our attainments in life, there is still a vacuum, an emptiness, and the most disquieting loneliness." 
 Alex Haley, Roots
      "We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium." Ansel Adams
      “Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o'clock at night. It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and I began to cry, simultaneously.” Dickens, David Copperfeild, p. 2 1850 edition
      Who made the world?


      Who made the swan, and the black bear?


      Who made the grasshopper?


      This grasshopper, I mean-


      the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,


      who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down-

      
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.


      Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.


      Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.

      
I don't know exactly what a prayer is.

      
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down

      
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,


      how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,


      which is what I have been doing all day.


      Tell me, what else should I have done?

      
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?

      
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?       Mary Oliver - The Summer Day
      “Like the wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we are, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment.” Harlan Ellison
      "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." John Lennon
      "When a parent dies, it's the end. I always wanted to chronicle the family history with my mother. She was always interested in that. I wanted some researchers I'd worked with to talk to my mother, but my mother was a little antsy about it. I know she would've gotten into it. It would have been okay with my father, too. But I wasn't forceful, and I didn't make it happen. That's one regret I have. I didn't get as much of the family history as I could have for the kids. " Robert de Niro, quoted in Esquire

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