Description

Class Summary

This interactive class, in two sessions, will enable each person to access their memories of family life and provide encouragement in preserving them in writing. The greater value is in attending both sessions, although one may benefit from attending either one.

The first session is centered on the what, why, and how of recall. The class will begin to write about a specific memory. The second session will focus on writing and request a volunteer or two to share a story they have written. In both sessions, the presenter, from his own journal, will illustrate the what-why-how of family storytelling and the joy in preserving those memories. Resources on family storytelling will be provided.

About the Instructor

Richard Lichty retired after two careers as a high school history and religion teacher and as a congregational pastor. His third “career” in retirement has been equally rewarding in writing five family histories and two congregational histories. Richard and Mary Lichty are residents of Dock Woods and have three children and seven grandchildren.