On Saturday, October 22 at 1:00 pm at the Belden Noble Memorial Library, author Phyllis Chinlund will discuss her memoir Looking back from the Gate. The subtitle of the memoir accurately describes what she has composed. This is, indeed, “A Story of Love, Art, and Dementia.”
Ms. Chinlund worked as a documentary filmmaker, and that experience is evident in the montages, cuts and different points of view she uses to tell her story. Chinlund’s second career, as a geriatric social worker, provided her with an understanding of the center of the story, her husband Ray Witlin’s Alzheimer’s disease. The disease surfaced in 1995, and in January 1998 Chinlund began a journal to detail the life she lived with her failing husband. Almost five years later, in December 2002, her husband passed away.
Phyllis Chinlund is the cousin of our Board President, Colleen Van Hoven.
Read a review in the Adirondack Review here.
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