Celebrate your Story - at area libraries

Personal Historian and psychologist, Linda Kraus, presenting Celebrate Your Story at The Third Place Commons in honor of Lake Forest Park's 50th Anniversary Celebration.

In Celebrate Your Story, psychologist/gerontologist Linda Kraus, M.A., focuses on the importance of preserving personal history.

“Saving family stories is a meaningful and significant endeavor, one that leaves a legacy for future generations,” says Kraus, a 20-year resident of Lake Forest Park. During Celebrate Your Story, audience members will have the opportunity to think about a story from their life and share it.

Linda talks about the health benefits of telling stories, such as lowering blood pressure and heart rate, and the various ways in which personal histories can be preserved.

Enjoy looking at nostalgic items displayed around the room: clothing from the fifties, sixties & seventies, very old recipe books and sewing patterns, 1940-1970’s Life, Look and Saturday Evening Post magazines, a Howdy Doody record album, a 60’s pink telephone, etc.

This program is geared to multi-generational groups including adults in their forties, fifties and sixties who are interested in capturing the stories of their parents and grandparents while there is still time and to seniors.

Life is not that which one lived, but that which one remembers and how one remembers to tell it --Gabriel Garcia Marquez

After discussing the importance of preserving personal history, Linda looks on as audience member, Elia Smith animatedly shares some personal stories.

Bothell Library, October 22, 2011 2pm

Pre-registration is suggested. People can register on the library website, call 425-486-7811, or contact Paul Jensen, Library Services Manager, 

Shoreline Library, Thursday, October 27, 2011, 7:00 pm

Lake Hills Library, Tuesday, November 1, 2011, 7:00 pm

Richmond Beach Library, Saturday, November 12,2011, 2:00 pm