Little Gray Island
The Memoir Project’s Nantucket anthology!
This anthology features compelling first-hand accounts of childhoods and vacations on the island of Nantucket, written by twenty-four senior residents. These true stories vividly bring to life the individual and collective experiences of native islanders and “washashores” alike and document island living, historic homesteads, and lineages of sea captains. You will witness the dramas of a whaling ship run aground, a tight sailboat race, and flying in a small plane through dense fog. You can almost taste the lacy seaweed pudding, fresh-caught bluefish, beach plums, and elderberry wine. You’ll want nothing more than to visit (or return) and explore anew its sandy paths, bogs, and forests. The extraordinary details, wisdom, and wit found in these essays evoke the magic to be found there. Little Gray Island is an eloquent documentation of these authors’ unique history and brings to life a Nantucket that may have been forgotten without them. Read the foreword by Nathaniel Philbrick and the introduction here.
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Have it for yourself, your parents, your grandparents, children and friends. On sale through Grub for $15.00 (includes sales tax) plus $4.95 for shipping.
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Sometimes They Sang With Us
The Memoir Project’s third anthology!
This anthology features surprising and thoughtful essays written by more than thirty seniors from three of Boston's most enduring and diverse neighborhoods: Hyde Park, Jamaica Plain, and Mission Hill. Written over the course of a year and revised with the guidance of instructors from Grub Street, these true stories bring to life the individual and collective experiences of a generation. In the original Spanish and in translation, you will read about the forging of immigrant enclaves in a changing Boston landscape; you'll learn about the "rotten fights" between squads of boys thirty strong; you'll even meet Albert Einstein, with whom one of these writers had a chance encounter in 1933.
As Mayor Menino wrote in Born Before Plastic, the first of this series: senior citizens are "the foundation on which Boston was built." My Legacy Is Simply This is an eloquent documentation of these authors' unique histories, and brings to life a Boston that many have been forgotten without them.
How to Buy a Copy
Have it for yourself, your parents, your grandparents, children and friends. All editions are free with the price of shipping, thanks to grants from the ReMain Nantucket Foundation and the City of Boston.
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My Legacy Is Simply This
The Memoir Project’s second anthology!
This anthology features compelling and one-of-a-kind stories written by more than fifty seniors from four of Boston’s most vibrant and enduring neighborhoods: Charlestown, Chinatown, East Boston, and Mattapan.
Written over the course of a year and revised with a host of instructors from Grub Street, these true stories vividly bring to life the individual and collective experiences of a generation. You will witness the drama of arranged marriages, the ups and downs of a first job at the Schrafft's candy factory, the ingenious ways of making and saving money during the Depression, and other memorable and surprising events.
As Mayor Menino wrote in Born Before Plastic, the first of this series: senior citizens are "the foundation on which Boston was built." My Legacy Is Simply This is an eloquent documentation of these authors' unique histories, and brings to life a Boston that many have been forgotten without them.
How to Buy a Copy
Have it for yourself, your parents, your grandparents, children and friends. On sale through Grub for $16.95 (includes sales tax).
If you'd like to avoid shipping charges by picking up the anthology at Grub Street, please call us at 617.695.0075 to purchase over the phone, or stop by our office.
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Born Before Plastic
The Memoir Project’s very first anthology!
This one-of-a-kind anthology features compelling true stories written by forty seniors from three of Boston’s most vibrant and enduring neighborhoods: the North End, South Boston, and Roxbury.
You will be transported to cricket matches in Franklin Park, a romantic encounter at the South Boston Yacht Club, noon fireworks at the “Gassie,” and other memorable and surprising events.
How to Buy a Copy
Have it for yourself, your parents, your grandparents, children and friends. On sale through Grub for $13.75 (includes tax).
If you'd like to avoid shipping charges by picking up the anthology at Grub Street, please call us at 617.695.0075 to purchase over the phone, or stop by our office.