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Writing workshops uncover family histories, forgotten memories By Brian Goslow had perhaps never previ- after the other, one para- ously revealed. At Perkins, graph after the other, in orraine Clifford has always been inter- and now at the Watertown traditional ways,” Zapol said. ested in her family history, even when Senior Center, Quinlan asks “He has us ‘free write’ — take Lmuch of it wasn’t quite clear. her class to keep what’s dis- off from phrases, images, After meeting some relatives on her moth- cussed among themselves. smells. This has led me to er’s side in her hometown of Watertown, She recently completed remember things I might she traveled to Newfoundland to see where her first six-month work- not otherwise remember, but her mother’s parents came from. “I really shop at the Watertown also to really enjoy keeping wanted to go back and see the place where Senior Center, where the a journal, which includes my grandparents had grown up and met and participants were 60 and primitive drawings, colors, where my grandfather had built a house for older. “They wanted to pass words written big and small, his wife,” said Clifford, 70, who committed their knowledge — and/or sideways.” her memories of the trip to paper when she wisdom — on to their fam- Another non-traditional returned home. ily,” she said. “Maybe some- exercise Dudley has his stu- However, a bigger part of her family tree times just explain some- dents undertake is writing was about to reveal itself as she delved into thing that was confusing, their autobiography using her genealogical roots. “I recently found out or seems confusing, maybe “the Twitter version of writ- — within the last year — that my father had explain to their children ing,” he said. He acknowl- a half-sister, who is 86 years old, living in why we (their parents) got edges the challenge this Minneapolis,” Clifford said. divorced ... Some of them creates. “How could you The discovery occurred through a combi- are nervous about it, but possibly write your life story nation of researching Arlington town records it’s something they want in 35 words and really cover and the help of a woman Clifford met on to share.” every aspect of it — your 14 Facebook in a group dedicated to Crowell Believing “if you can Kendall Dudley (l) with journaling and life design students in Morocco marriages and your 37 chil- (her father’s surname by birth). “She con- talk, you can write,” to get opportunity to take another look at rela- dren and all those somehow ducted a Google search and found a match- participants on the right track, Quinlan asks tionships which may lead to making repairs get covered in those 35 words? What this ing name, address and telephone number,” them to write a short piece about their life. or saying what you never said but wanted does is, it activates our memory which starts said Clifford, referring to the woman she “For one particular person who thought to,” said Erica Curtis, a marriage and family sorting data.” met on Facebook. “She said, ‘Lorraine, if she couldn’t write, I suggested that she therapist based in Santa Monica, Calif. “Even Once the words start popping out onto you haven’t tried this, call it and good luck.’

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