![]() Two therapists spoke about responsible interviewing, an attorney spoke about the legal aspects of a personal history business, and there were group discussions of business experiences, marketing strategies, subcontracting, fees, group marketing, and the pros and cons of computers, video, and print. ![]() That first year, people formed workshops and met around a round table, with everyone participating. Twelve of them started this organization, voting to be called the Association of Personal Historians. Twenty people came together in Amherst, Massachusetts, excited to be sharing experiences and information instead of inventing a new process and product on their own. Finding more than a dozen businesses similar to hers, she organized APH's first informal conference –partly as marketing and publicity and partly because she wondered what the others knew that she didn't. The transition from being an employee to being an entrepreneur was not easy Axelson-Berry hated the part about selling herself. She launched her own start-up business, publishing her mother's as-told-to memoir as a sample. Was this something she could do, she wondered, and when she left that job, she decided to try it. The Association of Personal Historians can trace its beginning back to the day founder Kitty Axelson-Berry, then working on the staff of an alternate weekly press, read a press release about Denis Ledoux's workshops for turning memories into memoirs. This article is derived from a longer article on the early years of APH written by Pat McNees for the issue of APH Perspectives. History of APH – The Association of Personal Historians
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