Curated photographs digitized directly from family scrapbooks, Kodachrome slides, and medium-format negatives preserved by designated family stewards.
The recipes folded in tin boxes hold more than cardamoms and measurements. They carry the exact sound of aunts murmuring over stovetops before everyone took their seats.
Parvaneh Kohanchi, Great Neck, 1991
Arrivals and neighborhood foundations
When the first household arrived in New York in the autumn of 1963, the family apartment served as communal port, immigration headquarters, and Sunday supper hall. Every newcomer stayed until lease paperwork cleared and kitchen pans were purchased.
Recorded cassette tapes from the early seventies preserve neighborhood stories, corner grocery ventures, and memories of holiday gatherings where forty relatives crowded into a two-bedroom hallway just to break bread under one roof.
Relatives with negative strips, scanned heirlooms, audio clips, or transcriptions can deposit files here for archival indexing and cataloging by the family stewards.