PLATTSBURG, Mo. — Family photographs serve as a portal into the past.
That's something Stephanie Coulter, a photographer, knows all too well.
"It's one way to learn about my family," she said.
In fact, Coulter only knew her grandparents, who passed away before she was born, through pictures.
"Trying to capture these memories and preserve them as much as possible is so worth it," she said.
That's why she's trying to reunite a photograph with its rightful owner.
The day after tornadoes ripped through Douglas and Leavenworth counties in Kansas and parts of Clay County, Missouri, Coulter found something while taking out the trash at her Plattsburg home.
At first, she thought it was just more trash.
"Then, I was like wait a minute, that's a photo, and it's not a new photo," Coulter said.
Coulter thinks the storm dropped the photo on her doorstep.
It shows a young man perched atop a statute in the shape of Texas. Judging by the clothing he was wearing and material of the print, Coulter believes it was taken in the 1950s.
Not much else is known.
"Is this a grandfather, a father? Did he go off to war? Did he come back?" Coulter wondered.
If it's someone who did not come back, she knows how important the picture must be.
"This is all they know of them, and that really hits home because my grandparents, I never would have known them," Coulter said.
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