Montclair has long been a welcoming community for people from many cultures, countries, and walks of life. Collecting the stories of moving to our town is an important way to record and reflect on the changing fabric of our community.

As part of the Montclair Public Library’s Community History Project, supported by the New Jersey Council for the Humanities’ Community History program with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, this workshop invites participants to tell their own families’ stories, focusing on the emotional and practical realities of settling in Montclair over the last several decades.

The workshop will begin with casual conversations about what brought us or our families to Montclair. We’ll share stories of first impressions, friends and neighbors, jobs, homes, and other memories of settling in town. Then we will turn to the page, writing down those stories to preserve them for ourselves and posterity.

Registration is required.