November 1, 2019
George A. Carlson (above), the grandfather of author and photographer Jeff Lowdermilk, entered the French town of Stenay on the morning of the Armistice, November 11, 1918. A century later, Lowdermilk was in Stenay for ceremonies and events marking the centennial of the end of the war. Now in 2019 he looks back to events of a year ago when his lifetime fascination with World War I came to a crescendo during the weeks leading up to the anniversary, and meditates on how the story of America in the Great War is very often the story of families.