Goodreads asked Laura Kelly Robb:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Laura Kelly Robb I was in Ft. Pierce, Florida, where Zora Neale Hurston, author of Their Eyes Were Watching God, lived her last years. Local hosts introduced me to the art of the Florida Highwaymen, who painted there in the 1950's through to the early 1980's. The 26 artists who made up that informal group created over 100,000 paintings. I wondered how museum curators and art collectors dealt with such an enormous body of work - and that question is the starting point of The Laguna Shores Research Club.

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