Eleanor is our sample story — everything here is a demonstration.
Stop 4 of 8
The woven account
Parker Family Circle (sample)Family · 1978 / 1979 · Woven account
The year the tomatoes won
Two years remembered: 1978 and 1979
Dates differ across perspectives: 1978 / 1979.
Resolved — both accounts kept
In 1978 I entered the Brandywines at the county fair on a dare from Mrs. Holland next door. I wrapped each one in a dish towel for the drive.
Eleanor
Her children remember the same blue ribbon — though not the same summer.
Ruth Parker · transition
It was 1979, I’m sure of it — the summer I got my learner’s permit and drove her there myself.
Daniel Parker · voice
What I remember is Mom laughing at the judge, who asked for her secret. “Coffee grounds and stubbornness,” she said.
Ruth Parker
Many people remember one event. A woven account brings their versions together — nobody's version is erased.
- What a family member can do
- Read the woven account, or open every perspective exactly as each person wrote it.
- What the family controls
- Disagreements are kept and marked, never silently resolved away. The family approves the weave.