A baptismal gown has been worn in Patricia Braynon’s family since the 1800s, when her family first arrived in the United States from the Bahamas. The gown and a ship manifest are just two of the items she’s helped to preserve in her family.
Since she was a little girl, Braynon was always following her mom around, asking her about her family’s history.
“You always have that one nosy kid that wants to learn everything about the family,” she said. “I never knew my grandfather … but I would hear the stories about him, and he just seemed like this most fascinating individual. So that kind of piqued my interest.”…