
William Murtagh

Like improv with a fountain pen, this pilot is a writing project with seven masters and doctors of creative writing collaborating to create a fictional archive of letter-stories told through handwritten letters, photographs, ephemera, documents, etc.

She couldn’t even say her name. I had to find my woman who abandoned my mother, and the rest of my mother’s secret family, on my own. You can read about my memoir research here:

Found in an antique shop, this notebook is filled with the accounts of a WWI American soldier’s tour. The owner’s name is missing, but clues may lead me to eventually returning this treasure to his family.
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Though the memory of Zion Cemetery had been erased, the cultural heritage of some of these families has always existed right here in Tampa for more than a hundred years. They deserve to be recognized through the Florida Genealogical Society’s Century Families Program.
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