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Across Generations is one of the Legacy Project's banner programs. It explores our connections with others and, in particular, encourages closer relationships between generations.
How can you celebrate
the unique, special relationships that can be forged between young and old, and bring the generations in your family and community closer? How can these relationships make a real difference in individual lives and in communities?
At the core of Across Generations is the award-winning bestseller A Little Something. It's a true story about love and legacies across generations that has touched the hearts of children and adults across the country. In addition to being a lovely gift book for children, grandchildren, mothers, and grandmothers, it's a thought-provoking intergenerational resource used in classrooms as part of family history and memoir writing lessons. A Little Something is the starting point and inspiration for Across Generations.
Fanning out around the core of the A Little Something book are a variety of Across Generations components. These include Across Generations activities, guides, essay contests, and workshops. Many of the resources are free on this website.
Relationships across generations make us feel connected. They make us feel connected not only to each other, but to something bigger – to the flow of life, to the past and to the future. In this hectic, high-tech world, we need this sense of connection. In fact, we crave it. It helps us understand where we've come from, who we are, where we're going, and why we're going there.
In connection there is contentment, purpose, and meaning. Children come to understand the world better, older adults have a sense of purpose in the world, and the world itself is made whole. We are connected by the legacies passed down from those who came before us and the legacies we pass down to those who come after us. One of our best hopes for the future is to pursue opportunities and programs that bring generations together.
Start your Across Generations journey:
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