Mnemosyne telephones your storyteller on a schedule they choose, listens the way a grandchild listens, and turns what they say into an illustrated hardcover — written in their voice, from their words, with nothing invented. Ever.
No apps to learn, nothing to type. Just a phone that rings at the agreed hour, and a warm voice with good questions.
Gentle phone conversations — as many as it takes — at times your storyteller picks. You're on the first call yourself, to make the introduction. After that, a family member can be on the line for any call, brought in the moment they're wanted.
One question at a time. What the kitchen smelled like. What the radio was playing. The wandering is usually the good part, so Mnemosyne lets the conversation wander.
Chapters in your storyteller's own idiom, checked line by line against their actual words. If they didn't say it, it isn't in the book.
A printed, illustrated hardcover. No photographs to share? Mnemosyne asks what people and places looked like, and the illustrations are drawn from those descriptions. Chapters from recordings carry a QR code you can scan to hear that story in their own voice.
say it: nih·MOH·see·nee
In Greek myth, Mnemosyne is the Titaness of memory — and the mother of the nine Muses, the goddesses of poetry, music, dance, and history. The Greeks put it plainly: every art begins with someone remembering.
That's why she carries the name. Mnemosyne's whole job is to remember — to ask the question, keep the words exactly as they were said, and hand them to the arts that turn them into a book: the writing, the pictures, the printed thing your family keeps.
Every family has these. The book is where they finally get told.
Every package is one price, once — the hardcover included. Extra copies are $69, flat.
We're taking a small number of first families. Leave your email and we'll keep you posted — you'll hear from us when a place opens.
We'll be in touch — warmly, and not often — and you'll hear from us when a place opens.
