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Goodreads asked Charles Paul Collins:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Charles Paul Collins My ancestors left no personal diaries, writings, or letters to shed light on their lives. So, I wondered if they had kept journals or written memoirs, what would they have shared? What were their thoughts? What mattered most to them? What dangers did they face?

THE REMEMBERING: Of Leather & Stone is a fact-based fictional account composed of three personal journals, written as if by my ancestors nearly two hundred years ago. Compiled from decades of original research—examining historical records from the Town of Milford, Massachusetts, where they settled, along with eyewitness accounts of the people, places, and events of their lifetimes—these are their stories as they might have lived and written them.

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