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I learned many things about doing historical research in graduate school: how to formulate a workable project, how to find and analyze primary sources, how to build on the preceding secondary literature. When in the grip of a compelling project, as I eagerly search out documentary evidence relating to my characters and their events, I feel an urge to visit the places they lived and traverse the roads they took, as much as possible.
In part, I travel to soak up atmosphere, to get a feel for a place that will enable me to write about it with more authenticity and credibility. In part, I travel because there are always useful local records in libraries and courthouses that can provide some missing clue. But there is something else, too, that I find hard to articulate, that I gain from these pilgrimages. Let me rush to say that it takes a lot of advance library work to make these site visits valuable.
A decade ago, when I first came across the crime pamphlets relating to Helen Jewett, a New York City prostitute murdered in her brothel in , I was immediately grabbed by the mystery surrounding not only her death but her life. The big-city newspapers reported on three different versions of her Maine origins, and the pamphlet literature added another three or four variants.
Based on armchair sleuthing in Maine county history books and census schedules, I pinned her down to Augusta. I was living in Massachusetts that year, and I proposed to my family a weekend trip up to Maine. Advice: try, if possible, not to take children along on aura-seeking trips. We parked the car near the Kennebec County Courthouse while I strolled around a few neighboring blocks, admiring the many s residences.
We even missed the wonderful historical site specifically set up to transport tourists back to the earliest Augusta historyβFort Western, built during the French and Indian War. Helen Jewett. Courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society. I made two subsequent trips to Augusta in the next several years and spent days, not hours.