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A time's true colors fade with the passing of those who moved through it. Thus one of the oldest uses of history, oral and written, is its memorial function, the capacity to keep long-gone times vivid, recovering for those present a little of the life that might otherwise be lost.

—Tom Clark, born 1941, poet and critic, regarding James Koller's book Like It Was; San Francisco Chronicle, July 2000

Turning Memories into DVDs
The Charlotte Observer, November 30, 2006

Older Adults Bequeath Their Values Via Ethical Wills
(free registration required to view)
Chicago Tribune, July 20, 2005

APH Marketing Guide Wins Addy Award
February, 2004

National Press Release (PDF file)
May, 2003 Personal History Month

The Joys and Surprises of Telling your Lifestory
Video by Metlife
Featured at the 2002 APH Conference in Vancouver, BC.

APH Members in the Spotlight

No Other Family's Quite Like Yours, So Capture Its History
Andrea Gross has done it again an excellent writer, placed another prominent article about personal history.
This one's appears in the monthly edition of St. Petersburg LifeTimes.

Intimate But Public Conversation Between Mother and Daughter
WFCR recently interviewed Carlyn Saltman along with two of her clients, Alice Rossi, one of the original co- founders of NOW,
and her daughter Nina Rossi, the family member who commissioned Carlyn.

The reporter was drawn to interview us because of her questions about the challenges that were built into this relationship
between a prominent feminist scholar and activist and her daughter, especially in the early 70's. Alice and Nina were surprisingly
candid on tape, so I'm expecting a captivating six-minute edited piece, which will be available for a certain amount of time after it airs on WFCR's site.

This Grandparents Day, Find Out More About Your Family Tree
APH Member Beth Morgan
La Cruces Sun-News September 9, 2007

The duo behind Verissima Productions will capture your family history, your life's work.
APH members Pam Pacelli and Rob Cooper
Memphis Magazine June 2007

An estate plan should include stocks, bonds—and a life story
APH member RJ Hatton
Wealth Management Magazine, May 1, 2007

Ethical wills skip the finances and share life's wisdom instead
APH members Libby Atwater and Barry Baines
Ventura County Star, April 23, 2007

This is your life: Napa writer has novel idea
APH Member Hawley Roddick
Napa Valley Register, February 17, 2007

APH Members win First Prize in the NAVES Competition
My Special Book, owned by APH members Eduardo and Vicki Zemborain of Buenos Aires, Argentina, won the First Prize in the NAVES (New Entrepreneurial Adventures) Competition, organized by IAE (www.iae.edu.ar), the most prestigious business school in Latin America.

Preserving personal stories
APH Member Linda Coffin
Women's Press (Minnesota), October 10, 2006

Telling the tale of your life: Lifeline Stories preserves lives in a variety of forms
APH Member Pat Barrentine
The Union (Nevada County, CA), September 26, 2006

Ethical wills impart values, leaving timeless legacies
APH Member Libby Atwater
"The Tidings" (newspaper of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles), September 15, 2006

Biographies: Not the Exclusive Domain of the Famous
APH Member Terry Geaslin and her business The Living Years
Tri-Cities (Tennessee) Times News, August 28, 2006

The Business of Memory
APH Members Teri Duff, Jurgen Mollers, Scott Purcell, and Jeanne Archer
San Francisco Chronicle, August 20, 2006

Saving stories for the future
APH member Eileen Kent
Utica Observer Dispatch (New York), August 14, 2006

A Gift of Self: Personal video biographies allow people to share details of their past and present for future generations
APH member Darin Foulkes
The Guardian (Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island), July 24, 2006

Paula Stahel interview (podcast)
How do you go about writing your autobiography? The online Wall Street Journal's Jeffrey Zaslow interviews APH member Paula Stahel, who runs Breath & Shadows Productions in Tampa, Fla., a service that helps people craft their memoirs.
Wall Street Journal online, June 2006

Framing the memories of a life
APH member Andrea Gross
Denver Post, May 29, 2006

Police tales going down in history
APH member and award winning oral historian Kate Cavett
St. Paul Pioneer Press, May 10, 2006

2006 Minnesota Book Awards Finalists and Winners List
APH member Kate Cavett of St. Paul won the prestigious 2006 Minnesota Book Award in Anthology for her book Voices of Rondo: Oral Histories of Saint Paul's Historic Black Community
April 29, 2006

Ethical wills let people transmit life lessons learned
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, April 16, 2006
APH member Barry Baines

Recording Your Story
Daily Herald (Utah), March 17, 2006
APH members Kitty Axelson-Berry, Amy Oaks Long, and Neal Harmon

Video Maker Says Everyone Has A Story To Tell
Hartford (Connecticut) Courant, February 20, 2006
APH member Peter Doherty

A NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION: Giving the Past a Future
Tampa Bay Metro magazine, December, 2005
Written by Andrea Gross, APH member from Denver, Colorado
Featuring APH members Paula Stahel and Kitty Axelson-Berry

Reliving "Life on the Home Front"
Chronicle, Centralia WA, August 6, 2005
APH member Julie McDonald Zander

Submariner's book looks at WWII life
Baytown Sun, Baytown TX, July 25, 2005
APH member Jeanne Archer

APH Members in the Spotlight Archive

Personal History in the News

How to Write Your Life Story
May 1, 2006
The Herald Journal, Logan, Utah

'Ethical wills' gaining popularity to pass on more than property to future generations
April 19, 2006
News-Herald (serving Northeast Ohio)

We Had the Love, But I Long for the Letters
April 17, 2006
Newsweek article that speaks to the need/value of personal history.

Lessons of the Terri Schiavo Case
March 30, 2006
A one hour NPR radio interview on "Talk of the Nation" about the legacy of Terri Shiavo. (Note: APH Member Marc Aaron Johnson can be heard giving his views at 19:30 on the recording.)

Get to Know Your Family, Friends Better
November, 2005
Article on Real Simple magazine's website that give tips for making the most of your conversations with your parents about themselves and their past. Also includes a downloadable PDF worksheet of personal history questions.

"Farewell, With Love and Instructions" (free registration to New York Times required)
By LIZETTE ALVAREZ
New York Times, October 6, 2005
A story of how individuals can preserve the legacy of their life experiences. The lesson that is learned by this family that lost their loved one to breast cancer is one that we can all take to heart and use to inspire us to create a lasting legacy for our loved ones.

Finding the Man War Left Behind (free registration required to view)
By Stuart Laidlaw
A son searches army records to find the stories his father never told him.
The Toronto Star, October 24, 2004.

Inside Lives: BBC Life Story Recording Project
A local-BBC project in Staffordshire, in which a team of story-tellers work with members of the public, forming story-circles, to enable them to record and recount their own true-life story, in their own words.

Veterans History Project
Talk of the Nation, National Public Radio, November 11, 2003

What I've Learned
Robert De Niro, interviewed by Cal Fussman
Esquire, January 2003, Vol. 139, Issue 1
(See third from last paragraph, beginning with "When a parent dies...")

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