A picture is worth a thousand words but what can these words tell us? Perhaps they can tell us the story of something grand, or maybe something of a tragedy? 

That is the case with the photo I have here with me. A visual representation of a story in which a building went up in flames. A single, yellow-garbed firefighter running through the image while jets of water rained down onto The Walker Hotel. 

Revisiting the past keeps our ancestors alive. I’m Alyssa Snider and this is one of my Family Stories. 

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