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Nothing is published without the family's approval when a family can be reached. When one cannot, the piece is built only from the public obituary and the public record, and the source is credited on screen.
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Drawn from the obituaries in local papers. One life at a time, with the family's blessing and the real photograph as the only image of the person.
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Dick Blake opened a used car lot in Barre on the first day of 1960. That same year a radio man named Ken Squier opened a quarter-mile racetrack on a hill outside town. Squier became the voice of NASCAR. Blake brought his wrecker to that hill every race week for more than six decades, and thousands of people in the stands watched him work without ever learning his name.
He sold cars until he was 92. He died in August at 95.
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Grief is not content. These are the lines we do not cross, and they are the reason a family can trust us with a photograph.
Nothing is published without the family's approval when a family can be reached. When one cannot, the piece is built only from the public obituary and the public record, and the source is credited on screen.
We never generate a likeness, animate a face or synthesize a voice. Reconstruction is reserved for places and objects: the track, the truck, the shop, the street.
The facts of a life belong to everyone. The prose of an obituary belongs to whoever wrote it, so we do not read it aloud or reproduce it.
Every piece names its sources on the last frame, and the funeral home receives the file for its own obituary page.
A family member writes to the address below and it comes down. No questions.