Claremont Boy: My New Hampshire Roots and the Gift of Memory

About this book

In Claremont Boy:My New Hampshire Roots and the Gift of Memory Joseph Steinfield shares humorous insightful and often poignant recollections spanning more than half a century. The author recalls what it was like to grow up as part of a small Jewish community in a New Hampshire mill town but the book includes much more. Readers will meet and perhaps recognize from their own lives grandparents and other relatives from Eastern Europe; influential public school teachers; some public figures whom he has known Julia Child among them; and a host of other fascinating people from New England and beyond including a Hebrew-speaking Muslim from the Northern Caucasus Republic of Adygeya and a P.L.O. leader from Jericho in the West Bank. Originally written over several years for the Monadnock Ledger-Transcript of Peterborough New Hampshire these essays are united by the authors sense of irony and the unexpected. Steinfields true stories will produce laughter an occasional tear and a reminder of the universality of lifes experiences. Whether writing about a caring neighbor an encounter with governmental bureaucracy or the surprise endings that often occur in life Steinfield has taken his storytelling skills and used them to recount a life well lived. Claremont Boy: My New Hampshire Roots and the Gift of Memory will resonate with readers everywhere.