Please Share an American Fork Memory

This post isn’t about candidates or elections or even local issues. In a sense it’s more consequential. It’s about remembering together.

In case you haven’t already heard, American Fork is collecting 250 good memories from people who live, work, lived, or worked in American Fork. I’m the American Fork Memories Project’s guest editor.

We’ll start posting memories soon. (Mine is already there.) To read memories, once they’re approved, (perhaps) lightly edited, and posted, go to the American Fork Memories Substack, afmemories.substack.com. You’ll be invited to join Substack and subscribe to the American Fork Memories Substack specifically, but you don’t have to join and subscribe to read.

If you choose subscribe (it’s free, and so is joining Substack), all you’ll need to provide is your e-mail address. Then you’ll get digests of memories in your e-mail, so you don’t even have to go to Substack to read the memories if you don’t want to. Subscribers can also like and comment on memories.

To submit your written memory, start with this Substack post:

It will give you some guidelines, answer some questions, and point you to a Google form you can use to submit your memory.

This post has some tips for writing your memory:

If you’re waiting for a personal invitation, here it is: You—you—are invited to write down one of your favorite American Fork memories in 200-300 words and submit it to the project.

Your memory could be the birth of a child or a wedding. It could be your dad taking you to Parker’s for a burger once a month. It could be an influential teacher at American Fork Junior High or a concert or play or sporting event. It could be helping a neighbor or a neighbor helping you. It could be making a friend or buying a book. It could be a sunset or a sunrise or a storm. If it’s yours, it’s positive, and it happened in American Fork, we want it.

As I said in my May column for the American Fork Citizen, “Just remembering is an act of civic and moral consequence, but please consider writing and submitting one of your memories.”

We’re collecting memories through August 31.

Thank you!