![]() It made me go to the library for a second – and yes, even a third – time, making another research. The journal was very remarkable in itself. There Taylor had grown up, and spent the rest of his life). ![]() Not too long after that, they moved to the fishing village of Gloucester, off the Massachusetts east coast peninsula. ![]() The documents appeared to be a travel journal from a sailor named Howard Scott Taylor (I later went to the state library here in Boston, and made the remarkable discovery that he was an ancestor of mine – in direct line! His father had migrated from England to Salem in 1746, when Howard was four years old. Determined to find gem stones in there – or at least some gold bars from the Great Gold Rush – my face kind of gave out a look of disappointment, when I discovered that its only contents were a couple of worn-out sheets of paper – no gem stones, that was.īut after I took a closer look at those old documents, that brief look of disappointment quickly vanished from my face, like when a street light turns from red to green. The chest was locked, but with the help of some modern day tools, I finally managed to open it. But there was something out of the ordinary with this particular chest I can’t really tell what, but something it was – something that made my eyes glow in the same way they do on children when they wrap their first present up on Christmas Day. Somewhere, deep into the small and creepy spaces in the far parts of the room, I found an old chest – not a too remarkable discovery, of course after all, my grandfather is OLD, and old people always store chests somewhere in their houses. It began in January of this year, when I was cleaning up the attic of my grandfather’s old mansion (which is soon going to be put on auction) in Boston. I have a story to tell – a very fascinating story. (Written for a Creative Writing class at Ferndale High School, Michigan, in the spring of 1999)
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