The following is a list of news stories we’ve been reading regarding life story writing, oral history, preservation, memoir, hometown histories and memory keeping tips. Enjoy!
PRESERVING MEMORIES
550 prompts for narrative and personal writing
The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/04/learning/550-prompts-for-narrative-and-personal-writing.html
Jerseyscapes Art Exhibit will highlight local landscapes and ‘people-scapes’
Jersey Digs
https://jerseydigs.com/jerseyscapes-art-exhibit-new-jersey-city-university-lemmerman-gallery/
Middlebury preserving local history with a scan-a-thon, faces project
Indiana
https://www.abc57.com/news/middlebury-preserving-local-history-with-scan-a-thon-faces-projects
ON MEMOIR
Flutist finds writing memoir a solace after Alzheimer’s disease
Albany Times Union
(New York)
We finally have the infertility memoir women need to read
The Federalist
https://thefederalist.com/2019/09/06/the-infertility-memoir-women-need-to-read/
21 new celebrity memoirs & biographies that will leave you starstruck this fall
Bustle
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