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I inherited an archive filled with people I’d never met and stories no one was left to tell me.
I’m Allison, an accidental writer and archivist documenting the people, places, relationships, and small details preserved inside a family archive spanning generations.
This is where I share what I find, what I’m learning, and the occasional historical rabbit hole I absolutely did not intend to spend six hours researching.
Come down the historical rabbit hole with me
I share stories pulled from old letters and photographs, forgotten people and places, preservation projects, strange little historical details, and the questions that send me digging through newspapers at midnight.
FROM THE ARCHIVE
Come rummage through the archive with me.
The best finds don’t always fit in an Instagram post.
Join me for archive discoveries, family-history stories, research rabbit holes, behind-the-scenes updates, and the occasional reminder to please write names on the backs of your photographs.
CURRENTLY WRITING
THE LARD CAN LETTERS
This book is a work of narrative nonfiction inspired by a family archive of 19th-century letters that survived for generations in lard cans behind a general store in Marshall, Texas.
I’m tracing the people inside the letters, the world they lived in, and the women in my family who made sure their stories survived long enough to reach me.
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