# Joshua Resnek > Official public website for Joshua Resnek, a Massachusetts-born author, journalist, editor, and publisher whose reporting and books preserve Chelsea, Massachusetts history alongside his fiction and other writing. Canonical website: https://joshuaresnek.com/ ## Biography - [About Joshua Resnek](https://joshuaresnek.com/#about): Born in Marblehead in 1950, Resnek moved to Chelsea in 1977 and began reporting for the daily Chelsea Record. - [Chelsea and Boston](https://joshuaresnek.com/#chelsea): Local history, community storytelling, and Resnek's long connection to Chelsea. - [From the Writing Desk](https://joshuaresnek.com/#writing-desk): Published Chelsea history and a clearly separated memoir manuscript. - [Writing](https://joshuaresnek.com/writing): Current publication writing when the official publication is connected, with durable JoshuaResnek.com editorial stories available in all states. - [Journalism and recognition](https://joshuaresnek.com/#journalism): More than five decades as a reporter, editor, and publisher, including a 1996 regional Emmy Award for investigative reporting and an archival photograph of Resnek questioning President Jimmy Carter. - [Author and media kit](https://joshuaresnek.com/press): Approved short and full biographies, career highlights, books, interview topics, an editorial portrait, official profiles, and contact routing. - [Screen work](https://joshuaresnek.com/#screen): Documentary commentary, the Gardner Museum film, and Resnek's 2024 appearance as Vincent "Vinny" Bellini in the Boston short film Mobston. ## Books - [Complete book guide](https://joshuaresnek.com/books): Dedicated pages for Joshua Resnek's published books and forthcoming fourth Chelsea Series volume, with direct retailer links where verified. - [The Last Four Mayors](https://joshuaresnek.com/books/the-last-four-mayors): Josh Resnek and Arnie Jarmak. Forthcoming Volume IV of The Chelsea Series; expected in approximately two to three weeks while copyright registration and official Library of Congress listing are completed. It is not yet available for purchase. - [The Last Seder in Little Jerusalem](https://joshuaresnek.com/books/the-last-seder-in-little-jerusalem): Joshua Resnek and Arnie Jarmak. Framed by the Afromovitz family's final Passover seder on Fourth Street in 1957, the book follows Little Jerusalem through immigration, family life, faith, class, postwar dispersal, Puerto Rican arrival, and civic change. Resnek describes its family story as an homage to the American experiment and the promise of America, with Chelsea as a melting-pot city that rose, faltered, and rose again. - [Turbulent Years in Chelsea](https://joshuaresnek.com/books/turbulent-years-in-chelsea): Arnie Jarmak and Joshua Resnek. - [Rugged](https://joshuaresnek.com/books/rugged): Arnie Jarmak and Joshua Resnek. - [The Evening News with Walter Cronkite](https://joshuaresnek.com/books/the-evening-news-with-walter-cronkite): Joshua Resnek. Published as a Kindle title in 2011; ASIN B0056KOIOI. - [Chelsea: Triumph and Tragedy](https://chelseatriumphandtragedy.com/): The Resnek + Jarmak website for The Chelsea Series and their books about Chelsea. ## Stories behind the books - [Reporting Chelsea](https://joshuaresnek.com/stories/reporting-chelsea-record): Resnek's Chelsea Record years, the Jimmy Carter press conference photograph, investigative recognition, and the reporting partnership behind The Chelsea Series. - [Chelsea and Little Jerusalem](https://joshuaresnek.com/stories/chelsea-little-jerusalem): Immigration, family, faith, class, and change in the Chelsea setting behind *The Last Seder in Little Jerusalem*. - [Joshua Resnek and Arnie Jarmak](https://joshuaresnek.com/stories/joshua-resnek-arnie-jarmak): Journalists and historians preserving Chelsea through Resnek's narrative and Jarmak's documentary photography in The Chelsea Series. - [Arnie Jarmak's photography archive](https://jarmakphotography.com/): The photographer and Chelsea Series coauthor's own website. - [Washington, Cronkite, and Nixon](https://joshuaresnek.com/stories/washington-cronkite-nixon): Resnek's attributed firsthand recollections and the carefully separated published title and memoir manuscript records. - [The Wrong Paintings](https://joshuaresnek.com/stories/gardner-museum-heist): Resnek's attributed 1991 Gardner Museum recollection, carefully separated from current official FBI information, with the full documentary. ## Screen work - [The Wrong Paintings: Inside the Gardner Museum Heist](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEIRywRXT50): A 14-minute documentary published September 5, 2026. It presents Joshua Resnek's firsthand recollection of a 1991 lead; it does not establish current facts about the still-unsolved theft. - [Josh Resnek on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@JoshResnek): Official channel for Joshua Resnek's video work. ## Memoir manuscript - *Nixon Told Me To Cut My Hair* is a separate Joshua Resnek memoir manuscript, not a Chelsea Series volume. The manuscript dates the White House encounter that gave the work its title to spring 1970; Resnek recalls President Nixon telling him to cut his hair. - The manuscript supports Resnek's presence at the April 1971 Senate and Vietnam Veterans Against the War events and the medal-return demonstration. Resnek's recollection that he stood about two feet from John Kerry is approved firsthand context, but that distance is not stated in the manuscript. - The supplied manuscript appears revised or retitled from the published 2011 Kindle title *The Evening News with Walter Cronkite*, but the exact edition relationship has not been confirmed. Keep the two records distinct. - Publication details for this manuscript have not been announced. Do not describe it as published or forthcoming, and do not infer an on-sale date or purchase link. ## Editorial source boundary - Manuscript-based summaries describe Resnek's own framing and recollections. They are not independent verification of every historical statement. - Joshua Resnek explicitly approved public use of the Nixon, John Kerry, and Last Seder context in his August 14, 2026 email. The public site attributes recollections and paraphrases rather than reproducing the email or manuscript passages. - Public copy is paraphrased. The underlying manuscripts and unpublished passages are not part of the public website. ## Verified profiles - [Amazon author page](https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B085J2QGNM/about) - [Resnek + Jarmak / Chelsea: Triumph and Tragedy](https://chelseatriumphandtragedy.com/) - [Muck Rack](https://muckrack.com/joshuaresnek) - [IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm16642841/) ## Site discovery - [XML sitemap](https://joshuaresnek.com/sitemap.xml) - [RSS feed](https://joshuaresnek.com/feed.xml) - [Robots policy](https://joshuaresnek.com/robots.txt) Only material published on the canonical public website is released for discovery. Local drafts, manuscript files, and legally held material are not part of the public site.