WRITER TO TELL HOW TO SAVE FAMILY STORIES Remember the stories Grandpa and Grandma told you? Save them now before they fade away. That’s the message the guest speaker will bring to the Bradley County Genealogy Society meeting Sunday, September 26, 2004 in the Bradley County Industrial Development Community Room. The building is located across from the Bradley County Sherriff’s Office on Myrtle Street. Wendy Ledbetter of Gurdon, a freelance writer and former editory for Family History Magazine (formerly Everton’s Genealogical Helper) “will talk about my favorite topic – writing,” she says. “ There are dozens of terrific stories associated with every single family tree and I think it’s a shortcoming on our part to not make a place in our research for those stories. While many of them are ‘family legends.’ Or simply tales that can never be verified, they still play an important role in who we are and where we came from. There are lots of reasons to save those stories and lots of ways to get those stories saved.” Ledbetter will discuss “simple, inexpensive” ways to get a book into print. “And, it’s only a small step from writing these stories down (for your own enjoyment) to publication in magazines and periodicals. I’ll show how to find markets.” Ledbetter has been a newsbeat reporter for several Arkansas daily newspapers and in 2000 received an Associated Press state award for best news story. The meeting will start at 2 p.m. and is open to the public.