One city.
Four books.

Volume 1 / Upheaval

Turbulent Years in Chelsea

Arnie Jarmak and Joshua Resnek

Chelsea, Massachusetts history from the late 1970s into the early 1990s, told through Joshua Resnek’s firsthand narrative and Arnie Jarmak’s documentary photography.

Volume 2 / The city exposed

Rugged

Arnie Jarmak and Joshua Resnek

A first-person account of Chelsea, Massachusetts in the 1970s and 1980s, pairing Joshua Resnek’s narrative with Arnie Jarmak’s photographs of the working city.

Volume 3 / Memory

The Last Seder in Little Jerusalem

Joshua Resnek and Arnie Jarmak

A 1957 family seder opens onto the Jewish history of Chelsea, Massachusetts, through memoir, social history and Arnie Jarmak’s documentary photography.

Volume 4 / Power

The Last Four Mayors

Joshua Resnek and Arnie Jarmak

Forthcoming

Chelsea, Massachusetts civic history: four mayoral administrations and the events leading to state receivership, in firsthand narrative and documentary photography.