WRITER AS ARCHAEOLOGIST

I uncovered some information that was both rewarding and disturbing at once. I am a speaker at an annual shipwreck camp hosted by a nearby university, and each year, I add new information to my program because of repeat campers. Because my great-great-great grandfather was drowned during a gale on Lake Erie (campers study and some scuba to shipwrecks in Lake Erie), I decided to dig into researching his wreck to learn more than the basics I knew to pass on to the campers and learned information that generations of my family had not known. I found an eyewitness account from the lone survivor of my grandfather's shipwreck, and it provided detailed information of the storm, the wreck, my grandfather's duty and details of his death. But there is also a mystery tied with the wreck which intrigues me. I am seriously considering writing a novel on this wreck after I finish the present book I am working on. Or maybe I should forego sleep and get right to it! Hmm...