Thursdays 9:30– 11:30 AM
September 30 through November 4, 2004
D.O.C. House
“A memoir is how one remembers one’s own life.” - Gore Vidal
“Grandma, when did you learn to write stories?”
“Grandaddy, which was your favorite house you ever lived in?”
A “TURNING POINT” can be as simple as the freedom of the day you learned to read, to tie your shoelaces, to ride a two-wheeler, or as devastating as a fire, divorce, loss of a loved one. How did it come about? Who was involved? How were you affected?
In this six-week study group, using in-class writing warm-ups and suggested homework “assignments,” we will be winnowing our recall to create and share short memoirs about some of the people, events, decisions that brought about significant change.
This is a writing workshop for beginning or seasoned memoirists.
Class is limited to 10 participants.
BOBBI STONEMAN, after retiring from twenty years teaching of science, language arts and poetry in Evanston, Illinois middle schools, conducted Memoir Writing Workshops for five years at the North Shore Senior Center in Skokie. She grew up on Cape Cod, lived in Evanston for forty-five years and then happily returned to New England in 2000. She has led weekly Memoir Writing Workshops for the Council on Aging in nearby New London for the past three years. She has a thick notebook of her on-going memoirs and seven grandchildren begging for more chapters!
