Preserve Your Family History (Pierce County Library NaNoWriMo Workshop)

Join Pierce Country Library Blue Cactus Press publisher and storyteller Christina Vega on November 14th for a cultural preservation workshop focused on collecting and preserving family histories. We’ll spend the first hour talking about collection techniques and best practices for recording, transcribing, and compiling family histories in different modalities (verbal, written, or image based). Then participants will get hands-on practice. Participants are encouraged to bring related familial memorabilia, such as letters, photographs, newspaper articles, etc.

Details:
Date & Time: Tuesday, November 14 from 5:30pm-7:30pm
Location: University Place Meeting Room in University Place Library (3609 Market Place West, Suite 100, University Place, WA)

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NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month, which is a challenge to write a 50K word novel from Nov. 1 to Nov. 30. Check out the NaNoWriMo website for more information.