{"id":12175,"date":"2013-09-20T06:50:17","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T10:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vps70863.inmotionhosting.com\/~nationalgrange\/\/?p=12175"},"modified":"2013-09-20T06:50:17","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T10:50:17","slug":"12175-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vps70863.inmotionhosting.com\/~nationalgrange\/12175-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Easton storytellers can make \u2018These Walls\u2019 talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>BY PAULA VOGLER | ENTERPRISE NEWS<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">EASTON \u2014 After staring at the Grange Hall many nights when her day at Mary\u2019s Music Studio in Easton was finished, Mary Parker mused to her daughter, Amy Macmannis, once that the building must have some interesting stories behind it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe thought wouldn\u2019t it be a great idea if people could exchange those stories,\u201d Parker said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thus a project was born \u2013 \u201cIf These Walls Could Talk\u201d \u2013 that collects stories from people in Easton about the town\u2019s buildings\u2019 history as well as their memories of growing up there.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The project has taken off since Macmannis created a Facebook page for it, according to Parker. She said people have submitted stories about stores and theaters no longer in town, memories of going to a candy store in town as children, and stories of grandparents living in Easton and what visiting their home was like.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cPeople generally don&#8217;t realize how interesting and important their stories are,\u201d Macmannis said. \u201cIn three weeks we had over 500 friends (on Facebook). It seems people are very comfortable with posting short anecdotes. 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