You can now order STORIED STUFF, the first paperback collection of Storied Stuff essays and pix. All proceeds go to not-for-profits assisting those impacted by the LA wildfires. Link: tinyurl.com/2t45wahb You may also view a short video of the editors talking about the book on WGN tv.

Frederick J. Nachman

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Frederick J. Nachman

In my younger days, when restaurants…

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Bob Kaufman

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Bob Kaufman

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Mickey Pierce Silverstein

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Mickey Pierce Silverstein

Everyone that my grandmother loved…

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Mickey Pierce Silverstein

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Mickey Pierce Silverstein

When I read Jenni Dart’s wonderful story of Nonna’s sauce…

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Hilary Ward Schnadt

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Hilary Ward Schnadt

My brother Barry called…

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Peggy Wolff

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Peggy Wolff

Queens, New York.

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Gary Schoichet

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Gary Schoichet

On June 23, 1933, my Aunt Ruth…

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Valerie Kretchmer

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Valerie Kretchmer

My father was an exporter who travelled internationally…

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Chuck Frank

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Chuck Frank

Arnold Palmer was my guy.

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Trisha Ricketts

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Trisha Ricketts

My dad’s golf hat…

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Elizabeth Brown

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Elizabeth Brown

My mother-in-law was a bit of a hoarder…

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Marney Solomon

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Marney Solomon

My Mother never drove.

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Mike Conklin

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Mike Conklin

Would you like to return to college…

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Jim Siergey

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Jim Siergey

I own a baseball cap…

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Patricia Merritt Lear

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Patricia Merritt Lear

My dad, Jim Merritt, died young…

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Manny Brown

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Manny Brown

Berson, Manny M.19th: 04/05/45 Pfc36692231 Died of Wound

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Naomi Smith

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Naomi Smith

I recently came across this picture…

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Lisa Miller Sablosky

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Lisa Miller Sablosky

During a recent attic storage reorganization, I came across this diploma…

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Angela Patten

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Angela Patten

When I was growing up in Ireland…

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Sara Marberry

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Sara Marberry

When I was 10 or 12 years old and my sister a little older…

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