ABSTRACT
Bachelard (1969) says of memories that “the more securely they are fi xed in space, the sounder they are” (p. 9). “Each one of us, then, should speak of his roads, his crossroads, his roadside benches” (p. 11). In this chapter, I ‘speak’ of a childhood landscape, Salmon River, remembered mainly through the photographic. As children we are taken places and shown things. We retain a story about each imposed trajectory. But there can be many stories about place. Here, I tell one, using the layers of the photographic as devices of memory. Simultaneously limited and valuable, place memory-stories can increase our sensitivity in our encounters with others. As we open up ‘heres’ and learn about ‘theres’, we are all alerted to important difference and possible similarity.
