My character grew up on the grounds and the entire story is his reflecting on his childhood so I have to know this place inside and out. *sigh* I had him living on Belmont Street and then learned that the superintendants were housed on the fourth floor of the clocktower.
What sucks is that I spent nearly a year researching it and have put out so many calls to everyone from the UMass Med School to Harvard to Worcester Preservation Society for info on Lowell, which is where the action in my story was to take place. (Basically it is the mystery of a little boy who lived there, based on a comment I once read in the archives by a person who said she "grew up in Lowell Home".)
My friend Kate Anderson has published two books on WSH and photographed the grounds extensively prior to the demolition and she had no idea what went on in Lowell. It turns out she knows the guy from this blog
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What sucks is that I spent nearly a year researching it and have put out so many calls to everyone from the UMass Med School to Harvard to Worcester Preservation Society for info on Lowell, which is where the action in my story was to take place. (Basically it is the mystery of a little boy who lived there, based on a comment I once read in the archives by a person who said she "grew up in Lowell Home".)
My friend Kate Anderson has published two books on WSH and photographed the grounds extensively prior to the demolition and she had no idea what went on in Lowell. It turns out she knows the guy from this blog
http://kingstonlounge.blogspot.com/
He helped her on her last novel. So I was like "WHY DID NO ONE EVER TELL ME ABOUT HIM??????????????????????????????????????"
And now I am working with him to get some solid info to make story hold up under scrutiny.
His off the cuff remarks about Gage and Lowell blew me out of the water.
Hun, if I get 1000 readable words a day, I am thrilled. THRILLED.