An Oral History: Preserve Your Family’s Story
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Chronicle a parent’s story and family history details before it’s too late!
Use this book as a conversation guide between parent and adult child to record fading memories, or fill out yourself, or ask your parent to do so.
Tips on recording a life story include providing memory cues, such as perusing old photos together or visiting a hometown.
Attractive keepsake volume is organized into eight sections filled with interactive prompts around the themes of back stories, milestone moments, everyday life, celebrations, reflections, advice, and such relevant facts as family medical history and life wishes.
120 gsm paper is acid-free and of archival quality.
Thick, smooth-finish pages takes pen beautifully.
A handy pocket inside the back cover holds notes, mementos, and more.
An elastic closure secures your keepsake book.
Durable hardcover binding.
Book measures 6-1/4” wide x 8-1/4” high.
144 pages.
Paula Spencer Scott is a family-life specialist, baby care to elder care, and the author of Peter Pauper Press’s Like Mother, Like Daughter Journal and Surviving Alzheimer’s. She has been an editor and writer for major magazines and books, a Woman’s Day columnist, and coauthor of health books with doctors at Harvard, UCLA, Duke, and Arizona State. She’s a 2011 Met Life Foundation Journalists in Aging fellow.
From the Publisher
An Oral History
Preserve Your Family’s Story
Appealing keepsake volume is filled with questions and prompts to record a parent’s life and times
Don’t lose those family stories!
This unique journal is designed for an adult child to record the story of a parent or grandparent.
Caregivers may also use it to help record a client’s or patient’s history.
One can use this resource in multiple ways:
Use it as a conversation guide between you and a parent to record fading memories.Ask a parent to fill it out on their own.Or fill out what you know yourself.The book includes numerous tips on recording a life story, such as providing memory cues by perusing old photos together or possibly visiting a hometown.
“The family is link to our past, bridge to our future.” —Alex Haley
Prompts throughout the book invite a parent to remember and record things about:
Great-grandparentsGrandparentsMother and FatherSiblingsOther relativesFamily health historyMuch more
Easy fill-in prompts
Thoughtful book allows a parent to recall:
Early memories, birth, childhood, friendships, education, and employmentMilestones and major eventsEveryday lifeCelebrationsInterests and beliefsThings: favorite foods, fashions, possessions, cars, etc.Thoughts and reflections on life
Finally—a place to chronicle a parent’s story and family history details
Start anywhere in the book
You and your parent may want to fill this in chronologically.
Or maybe a life-altering event needs to be recorded first.
Start where you want.
And begin sooner rather than later.
Attractively designed
Smooth matte black and ivory hardcover volume with gold foil highlights.
Raised embossing lends texture and dimension.
The word “History” is stamped in gold.
Leafy floral design is repeated on the decorative endpapers and throughout the book.
Black elastic closure.
Use the inside back cover pocket to store photos, clippings, and other flat items.
About our author:
Paula Spencer Scott is a family-life specialist (from baby care to elder care), and the author of Peter Pauper Press’s Like Mother, Like Daughter Journal, as well as Surviving Alzheimer’s.
An editor and writer, Paula has been a Woman’s Day columnist, and a coauthor of health books with doctors at Harvard, UCLA, Duke, and Arizona State. She is a 2011 Met Life Foundation Journalists in Aging fellow.
About An Oral History: Thick, smooth-finish ivory pages take pen beautifully. Archival-quality acid-fee paper help preserve memories Inside back cover pocket holds notes, mementos, and more Keepsake book measures 6-1/4” wide x 8-1/4” high Sturdy hardcover binding with gold foil accents 144 pages
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Our Company History
In 1928, at the age of twenty-two, Peter Beilenson began printing books on a small press in the basement of his parents’ home in Larchmont, New York. Peter—and later, his wife, Edna—sought to create fine books that sold at prices even a pauper could afford.
Today, still family owned and operated, Peter Pauper Press continues to honor our founders’ legacy—and our customers’ expectations—of beauty, quality, and value.
Image: Peter Pauper Press headquarters, circa 1948.
Publisher : Peter Pauper Press
Publication date : June 1, 2018
Language : English
Print length : 144 pages
ISBN-10 : 1441327819
ISBN-13 : 978-1441327819
Item Weight : 13.6 ounces
Dimensions : 8.25 x 6.25 x 0.5 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #574,123 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #23,378 in Parenting & Relationships (Books)
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