Postcards From The Past

TRAVELOGUE

Postcards From The Past

A nostalgia-driven column that revisits earlier travels, family history, childhood abroad, and the way memory reshapes place over time.

Postcard-style collage of two Ackerman-Ansty family photographs at Stonehenge, showing Julia and her sister as children with their mother, grandparents, and uncle.

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STORIES FROM THE PAST

AI-assisted nighttime view of the Al Gosaibi Hotel in Al Khobar in 2009, based on Julia Glenister’s daylight photograph.

Saudi Arabia · 2009

Hotel With An Unexpected View

Twelve-year-old Julia walking near two camels in the Saudi Arabian desert in 1972.

Saudi Arabia · 2009

Homecoming to a Foreign Land