At the 2013 book launch for Revisiting Our Neighborhoods: (l to r) Estelle Kafer, executive director of the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford; Susan Viner, the book’s chief researcher and project chair; and the book’s editor Joan Walden. Photo by Jake Mendelssohn

WEST HARTFORD – Stories about favorite teachers, cantankerous neighbors, friendly shopkeepers, devastating floods and dangerous fires, as well as winter days spent ice skating in Keeney Park, are just some of the many reminiscences that make up the book, Revisiting Our Neighborhoods: Stories from Hartford’s Past.

Now, on Sunday, Nov. 2 at 2 p.m. at the Noah Webster Public Library, 20 South Main Street in West Hartford, the book’s editor, Joan Walden, will read excerpts and discuss the process of gathering the stories included in the anthology. A discussion will follow Walden’s talk.

Published in 2013 by the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford, Revisiting Our Neighborhoods is a follow-up to the 2009 publication of Remembering the Old Neighborhood, which focused on Hartford’s North End. It includes more than 100 stories and recollections of growing up in Hartford’s neighborhoods in the first half of the 20th century. In addition to stories about the North End, there also are recollections of other Hartford neighborhoods, including the South End, the West End, Downtown, and Parkville.

Sponsored by Kehilat Chaverim of Greater Hartford, admission to Joan Walden’s talk is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.

Two hours of free parking is available for those who park in the Isham garage and bring their parking ticket to the library’s circulation desk for validation.

For information, contact Hila Yanai at hila1226@gmail.com or Eric Hammerling at ehammerling@ctwoodlands.org.