By Pamela Pacelli Cooper with guest blogger Sharon Carey When my colleague Mary-Anne taught a lunchtime class on Gingkoes a few weeks ago, she was surprised at all the memories that the trees elicited from her students. I am sharing one of those memories here. It is a magical moment that remains luminous and meaningful[Read More]
Blog Posts
Brilling and Bedazzled: Creating New Words
By Pam Pacelli Cooper President, Verissima Productions My family of origin adores words. We did crossword puzzles, word games, Boggle and Scrabble when I was growing up. I was lucky enough to meet and marry someone who is also a lexophile. What his family doesn’t do is create words to capture a feeling, an object, or a process[Read More]
Life Preservers Podcast – Episode 2: An interview with Leah Abrahams
What do Georges Briard, Gertrude Stein, and a Lutheran fraternal organization have in common? Find out when you listen to our interview with Leah Broyde Abrahams, personal historian. As a subject in our series on getting to know personal historians, Leah describes the path she took to become one, what she has learned, and some insights on why creating[Read More]
Making Choices & Personal History
Creating a Correspondence with the Future: A Monthly Newsletter
We’re excited to announce the launch of a monthly e-newsletter, beginning in April. We’d love to have you join us and subscribe. Just CLICK HERE to be put on our mailing list! Want to know more? Watch this quick iPhone video we shot on location for an introduction to what will be contained in each[Read More]
What’s the story?
Road Trip!
Touching Base After an Absence
Opening the Picnic Basket: Reunions, Food, and Personal History
By Pam Pacelli Cooper President, Verissima Productions “Mother’s German potato salad,” “The Rauh sister’s Spice Cake,” “Successful Icing as of 1975,” and “Oy! Lebkuchen.” As I opened the little tin box of my mother in law’s recipes, I was able to see the history of her family in about 100 3×5 cards. Some were written[Read More]
Context, Context, Context: Personal Historians and American History
By Pamela Pacelli, Personal Historian President, Verissima Productions So you’re doing a personal history for someone and they want to write about their grandmother who was the first woman to vote in her tiny Kansas town. Or, you’re interviewing a 90-year-old man from Pennsylvania whose father fought in the First World War 100 years[Read More]
