Even A Bridge Can Be A Memoir

23 Jul

Can a bridge be a memoir? Heck, yes! Add bridges to the list, along with all your other stuff from my last blog.  Nj.com and the "New Jersey" section of The Star Ledger reported this week that Paul Bartick, of South Orange, New Jersey, is working with Miriam Sumner, Lynne Smilow, and the Village of South Orange to name a bridge over the Rahway River in South Orange after Jonathan Felsman, a beloved South Orange community leader who died at the age of 57 of cancer on July 9, 2009.

Jonathan’s community initiatives included the South Orange Performing Arts Center (SOPAC), the town soccer league, building baseball dugouts at Meadowland Park, beautifying the Rahway River waterfront, and programming ideas at the public library.

“He didn’t give a damn about people’s reactions to his ideas,” says Bartick. “He sold his vision by capturing people’s imagination. Then he took action to make his shared vision a reality.  Jonathan really was the bridge that brought people together to make things happen.  That’s why the bridge is such an apt memorial.” 

Have you built or created something that is a memoir? (A wall, a bridge a window, a shrine, a monument, a statue?)

Write to me about it. Send me a photo. 

2 Responses to “Even A Bridge Can Be A Memoir”

  1. annette pelletier 23. Jul, 2010 at 4:54 pm #

    Trying to write "our 2 yrs. worth of love letteres, when we were teens and before our wedding while my husband was in the Navy, into a novel.  Am STUCK!  How do I go about it.  cannot afford to pay for help.  Thank you  Toni31333@yahoo.com

  2. martha_jewett 28. Jul, 2010 at 9:14 am #

    Hi, Annette: First of all, congratulations on sticking with it. You’ve written about this and are still “on the case,” which is great. Have you tried organizing the letters by theme? Or if not that, how about chronologically? You could also insert text with your letters describing what you and your husband did in “real life” when you wrote your letter to each other.

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