I invite you to contribute to this project as described below. Submissions may range from a paragraph to several pages. Please write in first-person and include specific details and descriptions to give a sense of people, place, and time. While striving to be as accurate as memory allows, keep your contribution informal and lively in tone. Please feel free to submit multiple items directed at the different parts of the book.
Relevant photographs are also welcome.
Please send me your manuscript by November 15, 1999. Any submission not used in the resulting volume will be returned to the author. Because this is a speculative venture, publication is not assured, and a publisher will not be sought until the book manuscript is completed. Furthermore, submissions will be evaluated on the basis of writing quality, inherent interest, and balance with other selections. There will be no royalties or honorariums for the contributors because many writers will be involved in what will be a small-market book.