Real Life Legacies

12/29/2024

The Essential Question to ask your family elders. Great listen with insight.

Try these tips to learn who your parents and grandparents really are.

03/05/2024

Life Story Writing starts this Thursday!

Join us the first Thursday each month where you will be guided by prompts to record your life stories. This hour will include time for response (writing) as well as sharing with others.

Sinclairville Free Library,
15 Main St. Sinclairville, NY
6-7 p.m.

Thursday, March 7
Thursday, April 4
Thursday, May 2
Thursday, June 6
Can't be there in person? Contact Library Director Beth Hadley at at [email protected] for a link to Zoom in.

03/05/2024

Life Story Writing starts this Thursday!

Join us on the first Thursday each month where you will be guided by prompts to record your life stories. This hour will include time for response (writing) as well as sharing with others.

Sinclairville Free Library,
15 Main St. Sinclairville, NY
6-7 p.m.
Thursday, March 7
Thursday, April 4
Thursday, May 2
Thursday, June 6

Can't be there in person? Contact Library Director Beth Hadley at [email protected] for a link to Zoom in.

01/11/2024

Smart prompts to get your memoir started...

08/12/2023

Happy to be a hole sponsor at The Rock Church's Golf Tournament today.

08/05/2023

Visit Real Life Legacies at The Book and Paper Show at Chautauqua Suites from 10-4 Saturday 8/5.

02/02/2023

https://www.phnn.org/phnn-blog/you-want-to-write-a-memoir-what-kind-and-does-it-matter

My friend recently embarked on a memoir project. She had begun writing, but was not sure how to focus her story. In fact, she didn’t realize that she had some choices to make. Despite the plethora...

08/07/2022

In life, we leave a legacy to our children, we leave our footprints wherever we travel, and we leave our fingerprints on every heart we touch.

-Pat Patrick, Awakening the Dream Within

05/25/2022

Local Authors Showcase

Saturday, June 4
from 12-4 PM
at Patterson Library, Westfield,NY.

Local authors are invited to participate contact: [email protected].

04/05/2022

Thinking about writing your personal history? Here are answers to commonly answered questions.

04/05/2022

https://www.writersandeditors.com/blog/posts/33323?fbclid=IwAR1D7op4zXljkwT-VctrDkIfYFxci5Qn-j1XsyBqFEObsN2Yl6qLhWiktmU

by Pat McNees* (updated 9-24-18) What is a personal history? What is a personal historian? Why hire a personal historian? What is [was] the Association of Personal Historians (APH)? What’s the point? Why would anyone be interested in an ordinary person’s story? How is personal history different ...

01/12/2022

Hi folks, check out my page on Next-door.

Nextdoor is the neighborhood hub for trusted connections and the exchange of helpful information, goods, and services.

11/16/2021

Thank you Valley Historical Society for helping us share the connection between our personal history and the historical record.

SINCLAIRVILLE — The Valley Historical Society met at the Sinclairville Firehall for their monthly meeting with two historians as guest speakers. Patricia Pihl who is a personal historian, told of how she assists people with the writing of their own personal history. People want to write their hist...

09/12/2021

My friend Clark Zlotchew reflects on his childhood years during the Great Depression.https://reallifelegacies.com/rll/beating-a-dead-horse-the-great-depression-through-a-childs-eyes/

Beating a Dead Horse: The Great Depression through a Child’s EyesBy Clark Zlotchew     www.clarkzlotchew.com(Taken from C. Zlotchew’s “Beating a Dead Horse: A Child’s Perspective of the Great Depression” published in The Abstract Elephant Magazine, June 30, 2021.)It was a sweltering...

06/11/2021

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This Saturday Don't miss me on Chautauqua Sunrise this Saturday, June 12 Host Doc Hamels and I will discuss my business, Real Life Legacies, and how it is helping people like you write and preserve th

05/27/2021

What's it like to work with me on the stories of your life?

Tune into my conversation with Doc Hamels on Saturday, June 12 on Chautauqua Sunrise at 10:00 AM on Cable Access Channel 5.

02/14/2021

Patricia Pihl, a personal historian who resides in Mayville, was the guest speaker during the Rotary Club of Westfield-Mayville’s Zoom meeting last week. Rotarian Doc Hamels sponsored Pihl’s interesting “Writing Legacies” program. Pihl stated, “We love stories. They are what connect us wit...