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)

https://www.timesunion.com/entertainment/article/Flutist-finds-writing-memoir-a-solace-after-14417049.php

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

https://www.bustle.com/p/21-new-celebrity-memoirs-biographies-that-will-leave-you-starstruck-this-fall-18718397

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