The Journal

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Keeley McKay Keeley McKay

Hickok Family at Home

The childhood home.

There is something so special about returning to the place you grew up with your own kids. Letting them get a glimpse into what your childhood was like. Picking raspberries from the same bushes you plucked berries from 15 years ago.

I am a deeply sentimental, nostalgic individual and feel so fortunate to have so many wonderful memories of summers spent with my maternal grandparents in Montana and my paternal grandmother in Oregon. So it comes as no surprise that some of my favorite family photos are the ones taken during younger families’ trips to their childhood home.

A few of my favorite snaps from one such trip home for the Hickok family.

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