Elizabeth Stone
Recent Articles
Does JD Vance Know What His Church Thinks of Impoverished Haitian Migrants?
America
“JD Vance, the Republican nominee for vice president, has falsely accused Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, of stealing and eating their neighbors’ cats and dogs. What should be our response to such disregard for the truth—and to such an apparent lack of compassion?”
Sometimes a Revision Really Is a RE-Vision
Cleaver
“When a former student died of AIDS and left me his diaries, I couldn’t unearth the real story I needed to tell—until I began wondering why my long-dead grandmother made a lengthy appearance and why my elderly mother kept popping up in my first draft.”
Overlooked No More: Pierre Toussaint, Philanthropist and Candidate for Sainthood
The New York Times
“He became wealthy working as a hairdresser in New York, then used his funds to free enslaved people, build churches and house orphans of color.”
Give Me Your Poor: The Story of How Emma Lazarus' Poem Became Eternally Connected To The Statue of Liberty
Our American Stories
On this episode of Our American Stories, Elizabeth Stone tells the surprising story of how Emma Lazarus'
Elizabeth Stone
Elizabeth Stone is a former teacher with extensive experience in youth and college ministry. She holds a B. S. with honors in mathematics from Bethany College in West Virginia, two language certificates from the Sorbonne University in Paris, France, and is pursuing a master of divinity degree. Elizabeth is currently commissioned to serve in lay ministry for two churches in West Virginia, where she lives with her husband Greg. They have five children and several grandchildren.
Erin Stone is a wedding and event planner in the hospitality industry at a resort in West Virginia. She graduated from Harding University with her B.B.A. in Business Administration. While in school, she focused her attention and classes on wedding and event planning. Erin has worked in youth ministry through camp counseling and directing. She enjoys speaking with young people and challenging them to embrace life through faith.
Both Elizabeth and Erin have spoken to churches, emergency responders, youth groups, and school groups about suicide prevention and recovery.
Elizabeth Stone’s interest in telling stories, her own and others’, is at the heart of her four books, all a mixture of memoir, social history, interviewing and reportage.
Black Sheep and Kissing Cousins: How Our Family Stories Shape Us
Family stories circulate in a family inconspicuously conveying deeply meaningful values, prohibitions, and prescriptions, about religion, politics, race and more. Half memoir, half researched, this is about the family stories that circulated in my own large Italian-American family as I was growing up, as well as stories I gathered in interviews with a hundred others.
Learn more a recent podcast interview about how the importance of family stories here.
The Hunter Campus Schools for The Gifted: The Challenge of Equity and Excellence
A social history of Hunter Elementary and Hunter High School from its 19th century origins to the present.
A Boy I Once Knew: What a Teacher Learned From Her Student
One day a box arrived at my door. In it was a death-bed letter from a student who’d kept in touch with me for 25 years, but whom I hadn’t seen since he was In the box were a dozen volumes of his diaries. He had died of AIDS
Elizabeth Stone
Elizabeth Stone.
Grief in the Age of Facebook
Elizabeth Stone teaches English and media studies at Fordham University. Her critically acclaimed nonfiction work A Boy I Once Knew: What a Teacher Learned from Her Student was published in In she followed that book with Black Sheep and Kissing Cousins: How Our Family Stories Shape Us. In the following article, first published in the Chronicle Review on March 5, , Stone recalls the death of one of her students and examines how that death was subsequently mourned on Facebook.
AS YOU READ: What questions does the author raise about this form of grieving?
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On July 17 last year, one of my most promising students died. Her name was Casey Feldman, and she was crossing a street in a New Jersey resort town on her way to work when a van went barreling through a stop sign. Her death was a terrible loss for everyone who knew her. Smart and dogged,° whimsical and kind, Casey was the news editor of the Observer, the campus paper I advise, and she was going places. She was a finalist for a national college reporting award and had just been chosen for a prestigious television internship for the fa
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