-EXAMPLE ONE -
This is an example of how a legacy letter can be written for a person facing surgery, to his children in case he doesn’t survive the procedure.

-EXAMPLE TWO-
In this example, an older widow shares some memories of her husband with a granddaughter.

-EXAMPLE THREE-
This is the opening for a current work in progress, a history of the television show, American Bandstand. The subject is Kathleen “Bunny” Gibson, a popular dancer on the show in the early 1960s. Material came from interviews with Bunny, who has been a successful actress in Hollywood since her Bandstand days.

-EXAMPLE FOUR-
After Buddy Holly died in a plane crash in 1959, Ronnie Smith was flown to Iowa from Texas to sing Holly’s songs for the remainder of a rock & roll tour through the upper Midwest. Instead of being a springboard to success, Smith’s life took a mysterious downturn. I learned about Smith while researching my book on that tour. I managed to track down his sole surviving relative and, after much coaxing, persuaded her to let me tell his compelling story. This is excerpted from the book, The Day the Music Died: The Last Tour of Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens, ©1997 by Larry Lehmer.

-EXAMPLE FIVE-
This is the beginning of a history for a prominent family whose patriarch, a strong-willed civic leader who used his church pulpit to further his social ideals, succumbed in a very public way.