The Resident
Yolie Moreno, Newtown resident, was so moved by the letters she felt compelled to save them. She gathered up a group of volunteers and began the ambitious project to photograph each and every letter sent to Newtown. This endeavor started at the town hall but later expanded to a donated storefront, dubbed the Newtown Healing Arts Center, which operated in the spring and early summer of 2013, for a total of six months.
Her project culminated in a website of photographs of the letters, called Embracing Newtown.