Discover how to retrieve the details that will bring your story to life. Limited space! $5 instructor fee will be collected at the door. Read More Share this event on Facebook and Twitter We hope you can make it!Cheers,New Haven Free Public Library
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Event Summary:
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Event: Memoir Workshop with author Patricia Lapidus
Date: Thursday, May 31, 2012 at 6:00 PM (ET)
Location: <b>New Haven Public Library, Main Branch</b><br />133 Elm St<br />New Haven, 06510<br />
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: #d0352e; font-size: x-large;"><strong><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">Discover how to retrieve the details that will bring your story to life.</span></strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: medium;">This writing workshop honors our roll as witnesses in our own lives and in the lives of others. Either in memoir or in fiction based on experience, writers tell what happened--and it's often a story that’s told later rather than sooner. Our memories are the shifting sands that hold our truths. Learn how to access and use memories to create your own strong truth story.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d0352e;"><strong><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: medium;">Bring writing materials.</span></strong></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d0352e;"><strong><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: medium;">$5 will be collected at the door.</span></strong></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: medium;">Space is limited! Please register here</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: medium;">or call the library at 203-946-8835.</span></strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: medium;"><img src="https://evbdn.eventbrite.com/s3-s3/eventlogos/672667/1622955303-1.jpg... alt="Patricia Lapidus" width="151" height="200" /> <strong>Trish Lapidus </strong></span><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: medium;"><font size="3" face="Arial,Arial Narrow"><font size="3" face="Arial,Arial Narrow">has recently published a second edition of her memoir, </font></font><em><font size="3" face="Arial,Arial Narrow"><font size="3" face="Arial,Arial Narrow">Sweet Potato Suppers: A Yankee Woman Finds Salvation in a Hippie Village</font></font></em><font size="3" face="Arial,Arial Narrow"><font size="3" face="Arial,Arial Nar
row">. Her essay about the joys of elder life appear in </font></font><em><font size="3" face="Arial,Arial Narrow"><font size="3" face="Arial,Arial Narrow">Unraveling Mysteries</font></font></em><font size="3" face="Arial,Arial Narrow"><font size="3" face="Arial,Arial Narrow">, edited by Jyoti Wind. Her short piece "</font></font><em><font size="3" face="Arial,Arial Narrow"><font size="3" face="Arial,Arial Narrow">A Musical Thanksgiving" </font></font></em><font size="3" face="Arial,Arial Narrow"><font size="3" face="Arial,Arial Narrow">is included in the anthology </font></font><em><font size="3" face="Arial,Arial Narrow"><font size=&q
uot;3" face="Arial,Arial Narrow">Thanksgiving Tales: True Stories of the Holiday in America, </font></font></em><font size="3" face="Arial,Arial Narrow"><font size="3" face="Arial,Arial Narrow">edited by Brian D. Jaffe. </font></font></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: medium;">Trish frequently presents writing seminars at the library. Visit her blog at <a href="http://www.patricialapidus.com">www.patricialapidus.com</a...
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