“Textbook history is arrived at by consensus, dulled at the edges. It is drawn from careful inspection of documents and limited by the records one can find…but for the memoirist, history and memory conflate to form a story we want to tell about ourselves." --June Cross from Tell Me True: Memoir, History, and Writing a Life, edited by Patricia Hampl and Elaine Tyler, 2008.
Friday, February 6, 2015
Monday, January 19, 2015
A Letter from Mama Flynn to Paul
Please note (thanks to cousin Margaret's keen eye) the teardrop on the second page over the "g" in "So long" and the "t" in "went." Anyone know why Mama Flynn used an envelope that originally said “258 Main
Street, Brockton, Massachusetts”?
P. S. The "happy event" was Mary and Jim's wedding! :)
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