“UNRESERVEDLY RECOMMENDED” – Midwest Book Review

A gifted storyteller turns to telling her own stories. You’ll be inspired to do the same.

A book that illustrates how any moment in a life can be resonant, magical, and joyful. Peg Guilfoyle has been writing short pieces, books, and commentaries for forty years, and collects the old and the entirely contemporary here , in all their variety and pleasure.How an old music score carries one through quarantine.  How a stack of old letters opens the door on a country long-vanished.  How your children grow, and you grow with them.  How the past affects the present. The beauties of an aging softball team. The things, the many things, you believe in. How every day carries humor and wonder.

A book-length family history written from independent research, family stories and genealogies. This branch left the Netherlands in the seventeenth century for New York’s Hudson River Valley, and along the Erie Canal to the Midwest, scattering family members along the way. Nine generations of people, towns and counties, historical incidents, with photos and documentation.