Got a good-news story about the role Social Security has played in your life, your family’s history or your community? The Frances Perkins Center, a young nonprofit organization that honors the first woman to serve in a presidential cabinet (Perkins was the secretary of labor under Franklin Delano Roosevelt) and maintains her family homestead in Newcastle, Me., wants to hear it — or see it.
To mark the 75th anniversary of the Social Security Act, which Roosevelt signed into law in August 1935, the center hopes to collect 1,000 written stories (400 words or less) and short videos (three minutes or less). Most of the stories will appear on the group’s Web site, but some will be collected in a commemorative book to be published in August.
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