Spinning Gold: Shaping Your Family Research into Compelling Stories, Wednesday evenings, September 14, 21, 28 and October 5, at 5:30pm-7pm.

This class will help students write their family’s stories, as true tales or fictional accounts. It includes exercises to get creative ideas flowing; guidance on planning and outlining stories; and tips for writing compelling stories from found facts. If you’ve ever planned to write your family’s history and never seem to get to it, this class will give you the tools and inspiration to do it, and the confidence to see it through.

Instructor Christine Halvorson is a writer based in Peterborough, New Hampshire. “Inmate,” her fictional account of her maternal grandmother, was published in 2018. Now retired, she is a former social media consultant, adjunct college instructor, PR specialist, corporate blogger, book editor, and newspaper reporter.

Thank you to our marketing partner for this class, the New Hampshire Preservation Alliance.