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Mary Gilbert, an East Oakland resident of over 45 years, and Julia Hardy, a resident for over 55 years, discuss their migration to East Oakland. They also talk about how they met 5 years ago and how it was laughter brought them together!
This video was made by our media partner BAYCAT's team, who traveled across the Bay to help us make videos at our second Community Storytelling Day and edited them.
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There she is, burdened with some truly awful material, trying to make sense of it, trying to honour her side of the bargain. If the telling is a bit rough, if her voice cracks every now and then and a tear wells up, that is forgivable. It's a mark of almost superhuman doggedness that she managed to get some of this down on paper at all.
And that's just the "core" story of The Lost Child, the history of an early 19thcentury amateur watercolourist, Mary Yelloly, possibly the most content-less life ever attempted by a biographer.
Myerson's agent saw an album of domestic scenes painted by the girl, thought the novelist (who had a notable success with her other non-fiction, Home testking 650-175 70-236 220-602 : The Story of Everyone Who Ever Lived in Our House) should research the life, and signed her up.
But a couple of years on, though she had met some jolly nice great-greatgreat nieces and mooched around a Suffolk churchyard in the damp, Myerson had discovered little more about Mary Yelloly than that she owned a pair of dangly earrings, rode in a yellow coach and that one of her relations had a room 10ft square. Riveting stuff.
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